, thank— these. john ironmonger and katy austen, thank you _ these. john ironmonger and katy austen,h. - health officials are concerned the heat will put extra pressure on already stretched hospital services. some have taken the decision to cancel routine outpatient appointments and non—urgent surgeries because of the very high temperatures. routine outpatient appointments and surgery will not go ahead at milton keynes university hospital on monday and tuesday following the warning over extreme heat. our health editor hugh pym reports. a memorable day for these parents, and notjust because baby daughter adia had arrived. born this morning in a heatwave, they'd brought in their own fans to try to keep cool. i had my mum fanning me with a hand—held fan. i had my husband holding the fan right up to my face because i was sweating as i was pushing. so it's a lot of adjustments we've had to make, but we've made it. fantastic. and we're going to go in the ward now, aren't we, with it? here at st helier hospital, extra drinks for patients to keep them hydrated were being delivered. dahlia wa

our transport correspondent katy austen is at king's cross in london.ies are running a reduced service again and people are being told, don't travel by train unless your journey being told, don't travel by train unless yourjourney is absolutely necessary. from king's cross in central london there are no trains at all running up the east coast main line today between here and york and leeds. and passengers are also being told, do not travel on other services heading north out of london into the red zone of the met office's weather warning. there are no thameslink or great northern services planned to run north of london all day. the east midlands railway is only running a very limited service today. the rails get a lot hotter than the air does and the highest rail temperature recorded yesterday was 62 degrees in suffolk. the network isjust recorded yesterday was 62 degrees in suffolk. the network is just not designed to cope with these temperatures will stop although speed restrictions have been in place once again, as they were yesterday, to try to redu