Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Washout weekends for most but new hot spell is on horizon
Dorset, was forced to cancel its final day yesterday after it was hit by severe rain and 50mph winds.
Organisers said they were “devastated” after tents were flooded and stages closed due to health and safety fears.
The heatwave coming on the back of a wet, cold winter has meant farms are turning out fewer and smaller vegetables – with potatoes, onions and carrots hit hard.
Tim Elcombe, chairman of British Onions, said: “We are entering unprecedented territory. We
THREE British children died here and abroad at the weekend while playing in water.
A boy of five drowned in the Algarve on Saturday, four hours before a girl of four drowned in a swimming pool in Marbella.
And a six-year-old girl from Erith, Kent, died in hospital after getting into difficulty in the sea need rain but the ground is now so hard, the danger is a heavy deluge will just run off the top and hailstones could further damage the crop.”
Farming schedules have been thrown into chaos by drought and intense heat.
And smaller vegetables in shops after autumn harvests will likely be accompanied by imported produce at higher prices.
Jack Ward, chief executive of the British Growers Association, said: “It seems as
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on the same day in Margate Harbour. She was said to have been found face-down on a sandbank as the tide went out in choppy conditions.
The four-year-old was on holiday with her parents just off Marbella’s Golden Mile. She was already out of the water when emergency responders arrived though most of this year has been either too cold or too hot, or too wet or too dry.
“In the long term, volumes will be down and costs will be up.
“It’s the law of economics. When supply is short, prices will rise.”
Roger Hobson, of the British Carrot Growers Association, added the “damage is done” if the drought breaks or not.
More than 1,000 suitcases were lying abandoned in baggage claim at Stansted Airport yesterday after a weekend of travel chaos caused by the storms.
and tried to revive her using CPR. A local report said the tragedy happened at a pool belonging to a private villa.
The five-year-old boy was with his parents near the resort of Silves in the Algarve. He was pronounced dead after being pulled out off the water at a villa in the Amendoeira resort.