It has warned of \u201cpopulation-wide adverse health effects\u201d as doctors, teachers and climate experts cautioned that the UK was unprepared for increasingly frequent heatwaves because of climate change.<\/p>\n
The electricity grid operator Neso issued a new warning that supply margins could be tighter during the peak demand period on Friday evening because of pressure on the system.<\/p>\n
At a market in central London that mainly caters to office workers, street food vendors were struggling to work beside the gas-fired stoves and foot traffic was down.<\/p>\n
Hot weather continues to affect daily life as high temperatures persist across the United Kingdom. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI do just want to stick my face in the ice bucket,\u201d said 37-year-old turkey stall owner Will Evans, sporting a green cooling towel he bought online as a bandana.<\/p>\n
Working under a black canopy, the chef said it got up to 5C hotter in his workspace than the temperature outside the tent.<\/p>\n
According to Evans, public advice to remain at home and limit travel meant fewer office workers were buying lunch at the market.<\/p>\n
At a nearby fried chicken stall, Rainei Almeida said it felt as hot as 43C because of the fryers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a difficult summer for everyone here in the market, the traders, unfortunately,\u201d the 27-year-old stall worker from Ecuador said.<\/p>\n
Tourist spots close<\/p>\n
Hospitals and emergency services were stretched thin as well, with London Ambulance Service recording the highest number of \u201clife-threatening\u201d emergency calls in a day on Wednesday, driven by the heat.<\/p>\n
\u201cClinical colleagues who aren\u2019t routinely deployed on the front line have been deployed back on the front line,\u201d London Ambulance Service chief Jason Killens told BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, some tourist attractions and museums in London were closed on Friday because of the red heat warning, including the iconic Tower Bridge and the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.<\/p>\n
The British Museum said it was closing early and warned it \u201cmay also temporarily close some galleries\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of schools remained closed or partially closed on Friday, and multiple hospital trusts had raised the alarm after MRI machines and IT systems broke down in the heat.<\/p>\n
A wildfire that broke out on Wednesday on moorland near the northwestern town of Glossop was contained by Friday afternoon, fire services said.<\/p>\n
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