Simon Calder's warning to Brits travelling amid the European heatwave
Travellers may not necessarily have the right to cancel their holidays and claim a refund amid the extreme weather conditions.
Spain's national weather agency has issued a warning for temperatures reaching up to 42C in its southern regions.
The UK is also experiencing high temperatures, with Wimbledon set for its hottest opening day on record.
Watch the video in full above.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
BBC News
30 minutes ago
- BBC News
Review of Castletown parking provision to be carried out
A review of parking provision across a town in the south of the Isle of Man is set to be carried out by the local authority for the Commissioners voted in favour of undertaking a strategic plan of the town's short-term, medium-term and long-term follows public feedback, sparked by previous plans to pedestrianise Market Square during the winter, that there was not enough parking in the centre or close to the John Cringle said there was a "finite" amount of parking in he town and it was "really important" different areas were considered for designation. The review is due to be completed in the autumn. 'Finding a balance' The plan, which will consider the views of local residents, would run alongside a separate review into the future parking provision at Market Square. Cringle said it was about "finding the balance" so residents felt they were "not disadvantaged by having to park miles away from their home, but equally that visitors can feel they can have a period of time where they can walk around and go to the shops."He said a new plan would be open to change and the commissioners would be "big enough" to acknowledge if it had not worked or if there were areas for had not been a "significant review" into the town's parking before, but there was a feeling that the current provision "was not being used efficiently", he idea was to have the shorter-term parking in the town centre, with more medium and longer-term parking further out, he added. Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.
BBC News
40 minutes ago
- BBC News
Oxford's overnight visitors could face 'tourist tax'
A new levy on overnight stays is being considered for visitors to City Council is exploring the idea of introducing an Accommodation Business Improvement District (ABID) which would add a surcharge – sometimes referred to as a "tourist tax" – to hotel and college room is estimated the scheme could generate £2.5m a year which would be reinvested in the local tourist a meeting of the council's scrutiny committee on Tuesday, members discussed the potential impact of the plan. More than 32 million people visited the city last year, according to council figures, with tourism supporting about 40,000 jobs.A £2 nightly charge on overnight stays in hotels and college rooms could help fund improvements to the city's visitor offer, the council Fawcett, city centre manager at Oxford City Council, said: "It's not really just about our tourists, it's about anybody who uses the city. "So whether you live here, whether you work here, whether you're a student here, as well as a tourist, we want to improve that experience." Similar schemes already operate in other parts of the country, including Manchester and introduced its ABID in April 2023, adding a £1 per night visitor charge to hotels and serviced apartments. It raised an estimated £2.8m in its first version began in June, with a £2 nightly charge expected to bring in £9.2m by Dorset, a ballot of hoteliers in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole approved a levy in May 2024, however more than 40 hotels lodged an appeal with the government over how the ballot was meant the introduction of the levy was Oxford, as well as an estimated 2,300 hotel rooms being considered for the programme, Oxford University colleges have approximately 8,000 rooms available at various points in the year, with a predicted annual ABID contribution of £ committee has recommended creating two task groups – one for hoteliers and one for colleges – to lead the design of the scheme and decide which local projects should benefit from the funding. You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
40 minutes ago
- BBC News
Rail engineer expands lockdown Willingdon garden train project
Tucked away at the foot of the South Downs behind a row of houses is a rail engineer's lockdown project, a working train carriage on 50ft (15.2m) of enthusiast Adrian Backshall retired from Network Rail in 2018 and built the railway in his garden during the Covid-19 pandemic in it is not to the scale of the government's HS2 scheme, Adrian has now expanded his project, cutting through his wife's herbaceous border of flowers in the carriage is built on a Victorian platelayer's trolley and is used for the couple's tea and drinks parties at their home in Willingdon, East Sussex. "I had enough of the call-outs and paperwork when I retired, but when you've been on the railways, it's in you and you still love it", said Adrian, 64."While HS2 has built tunnels and viaducts in all that time, I've extended my railway by 16ft."When I retired my wife said I should do something with the trolley, so I cobbled this together. I'm really pleased with it."Walking into Adrian and Ruth's garden is like entering a railway museum. The garden is adorned with real train memorabilia including signage, signals and a working signal box telephone. Adrian said: "If this stuff is laying around, you need to save it. So much stuff has been lost over the years."Adrian's train has two stops, the garden shed and patio just beyond the herbaceous border. The train used to be powered by a hand-winched pulley system but Adrian has upgraded to a 12 volt solar-powered said the train moves at a third of a mile an hour but allows passengers to take in the views of their garden as the train inches along. His wife Ruth said: "It was my idea in the first place, we had an empty garden so why not build a track."Adrian said he wasn't going to extend it into my flower beds and twice I've been on holiday and come back to see he's done it."Adrian and Ruth held an open day in their garden on 21 June to raise money for St Wilfrid's Hospice.
