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Thousands may have died in UK's exceptional May and June heatwaves | BBC News

More than 2,700 people may have died from heat-related causes in England and Wales during the exceptionally hot weather in May and June, experts' estimates suggest.

The figure, from a team at Imperia

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The UK is held back by it's long history of incompetent public officials
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they can find out how many died from a heatwave in weeks
but cant find the boat people committing crimes
joke of a government need a revolution and vigilantes
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@manoo422 From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 10
1000s 'may' have died...!! So they are just blatantly make this crap up now...!! TEN time the numbers die from the cold in winter as do the heat in summer. What does the govt do...Take away the winter fuel from the elderly, as they are not typically Labour voters...Sick.
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@gassit900 From YouTube ↗ 14 Jul 2026 28
And we have to pay a TV licence fee for this corrupted crap.
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Thousands may have died watching the bbc
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@piendawg From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 65
Just buy some fricken air conditioners for those care homes ffs
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@-Good4Y0u From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 19
Not buying Aircon for these people is the real travesty. Even a portable one.
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Many have and will die in the winter
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Human-caused air conditioner deficit.
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As the temperature rises so does the hysteria
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@ewoksrus From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 15
May have died. They did or they didn’t 😮
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@davstar0 From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 46
Human-caused climate change = corporate and elitist caused climate change.
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Human caused heatwave from the governments big idea to cloud seed that pushes the humidity up, so don't blame the citizens & tax them for it.
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"may have"?
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@tinasheroy From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 72
AC should become standard for any new build the same way heating is
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I can't find a single portable air conditioner in the UK. And the advert prices for them have now doubled even though none are available.
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Air conditioner must be installed in hospital and Nursing Home
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@sisulart From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 37
May have? Don’t they know?
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@Paul-pf6rm From YouTube ↗ 13 Jul 2026 102
"May have died" means nothing.
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Every nursing home and hospital needs AC. No brainer