{"id":675003,"date":"2026-07-05T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:35:11","slug":"uk-could-run-out-of-air-conditioning-units-ely-engineer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675003\/","title":{"rendered":"UK could run out of air conditioning units, Ely engineer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dean Franklin, air conditioning entrepreneur and winner of the BBC series The Apprentice, also said he could see air conditioning becoming the norm in UK homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nowadays, you wouldn&#8217;t dream of buying a car without air conditioning. It pretty much comes as standard,&#8221; he told BBC Newsbeat last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think that&#8217;s going to be the case going forward in people&#8217;s homes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK&#8217;s highest ever June temperature was recorded on 26 June at 37.7C (99.9F), smashing the previous high of 35.6C (96F) set in 1957.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Cambridgeshire? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dean Franklin, air conditioning entrepreneur and winner of the BBC series The Apprentice, also said he could see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}