Using a fan and taking more showers is a great way to cool down but some appliances produce more heat and cost more money.

Temperatures are forecast to exceed 30C in Bradford over the weekend - with heatwave criteria expected to be reached in parts of the UK in the coming days.

Around 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during the severe heatwave that ended last week, according to an analysis.

Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was responsible for 1,500 deaths. Wednesday's study by researchers at