The UK has now had 25 days this year when temperatures have exceeded 30C as the country experiences its third heatwave of the summer, the Met Office has said.

Police have named a man whose body was found in a suitcase as 34-year-old Dale Mundell.

The UK will hold its largest home defence exercise in decades next year to better prepare the country for the possibility of war.

At least 19 wildfires are burning across the UK as a third heatwave in as many months continues - causing a phenomonon experts have previously called a "firewave".