Firefighters from Germany, Poland, Romania and Italy are heading to the south of France to help tackle a wildfire that has been burning for more than a month, amid an historic European heatwave.
A "monster" wildfire raged for a third day in southwestern France on Thursday, ravaging forests and forcing 10,000 people to evacuate their homes. With no let-up in scorching temperatures likely before the weekend, firefighters backed by.
However, the rainfall is not expected to offset Thames Water s warning to customers as thousands in the South East ran out of water just hours after swathes of England were made drought zones.