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Wildfires are now an escalating risk: here’s how the UK needs to prepare ahead of next summer

Fire services across the UK are now working out how much they can do over the winter to prepare for one of the country’s escalating dangers: wildfires.

Baroness Brown, the chairwoman of the UK’s Climate Change Committee, recently told the BBC that not enough action has been taken, given that the UK is predicted to face longer, drier summers due to global warming.

Celebrity Traitors: research suggests that contestants will find the game tougher than it looks

The Traitors has become essential viewing for millions of fans. The TV game show, in which a group of “faithfuls” try to identify a smaller number of hidden traitors, is all about truth and lies.

And it looks very easy from the sofa. For the 2026 celebrity version, contestants including singer James Blunt, mathematician Hannah Fry, broadcaster Amol Rajan and actors Bella Ramsey and Richard E. Grant, will have been working on their game plan.

Cities keep shelling out taxpayer money for sports stadiums, yet the economics almost never makes sense

Atlanta's Truist Park, like many sports venues, got public funding, but the new stadium has had no measurable effect on the local economy, research shows. Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty ImagesAmericans are crazy about sports. But whether that passion requires taxpayers to subsidize new facilities every time leagues and franchises ask for them needs rigorous scrutiny.

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