{"id":677794,"date":"2026-07-07T03:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677794\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:25:15","slug":"amber-health-alert-for-south-west-before-further-hot-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677794\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber health alert for South West before further hot weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

An amber heat health alert has been issued for the South West as temperatures are expected to rise later this week. <\/p>\n

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said an amber warning would be in place from 09:00 BST on Wednesday until 21:00 on Sunday. <\/p>\n

The alert comes weeks after record-breaking temperatures across the South West and the Channel Islands.<\/a><\/p>\n

The UKHSA said there could be a rise in deaths as a result of temperatures, particularly among those aged 65 and over, or with health conditions, and there might also be impacts on younger age groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An amber heat health alert has been issued for the South West as temperatures are expected to rise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-677794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677794","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=677794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}