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Cabinet Office Minister Kit Malthouse will chair a meeting of the Cobra civil contingencies committee on the heatwave, ahead of the amber alert which begins on Sunday.
East Anglia is particularly parched this summer after it saw just two thirds of its normal rainfall in the first half of this year, making it the region s driest half-year period since 1996.