{"id":690122,"date":"2026-07-13T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:12:11","slug":"yellow-heat-health-warning-in-south-west-as-heatwave-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690122\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow heat health warning in South West as heatwave continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to research from Imperial College London, the Met Office and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, around 550 people died between 21 and 29 May as a result of the hot weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team said a further 2,200 are thought to have died from heat-related issues between 18 and 28 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the South West, the research suggested 71 people died during the May heatwave and 248 died in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Ian McCarthy, consultant in emergency medicine at Plymouth&#8217;s Derriford Hospital, said the A&amp;E department had been &#8220;really busy&#8221; during the heatwaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to research from Imperial College London, the Met Office and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-690122","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\/690122","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=690122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}