We cover news from public bodies and utility companies for UK households on power cuts, weather, water, health, safety and security. Each report includes the date and sources, with links to our guides.
Public Health Wales analysis found 98.1 deaths a day in Wales on days covered by a Met Office extreme heat alert in summer 2022, against 84.3 on days with no alert, during heat events in July and…
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service has issued a red fire severity alert for the coming days after attending 180 fires in the open in the first ten days of August 2022, up from 34 in the same…
The All Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group has given the fifth week of its summer campaign, 8 to 14 August, to pregnant women, children and babies, the elderly and people with respiratory…
South West Water brought in a temporary hosepipe ban from 00:01am on Saturday 8 August 2022 for customers across Devon, Cornwall, parts of Dorset and Somerset and the Isles of Scilly, to protect…
South West Water has warned that formal water restrictions may be needed in the coming weeks if exceptional demand and sustained dry weather continue, and has urged customers to avoid non-essential…
Over the three months to August 2022 most of England, Wales and south-east Scotland fell into the severely dry and extremely dry SPI-3 categories, after a summer that was the fifth driest for England…
The Advanced software provider, which supports NHS 111 and other patient systems, was attacked in August 2022, a parliamentary committee later reported, with doctors reverting to pen and paper for…
Thames Water's Netley Mills water treatment site went out of service in August 2022, affecting up to 9,000 properties in Surrey during Amber extreme heat warnings, with bottled water delivered to…
The UK Health Security Agency issued a Level 3 Heat Health Alert in force from Tuesday through to Sunday, as the Met Office warned of extreme heat across much of southern England and parts of eastern…
A glider tow wire came down on a high voltage overhead cable in West Sussex, cutting power to about 3,250 customers while engineers removed it and checked the network.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue has recorded that heavy rain in August 2022 flooded an estimated 100 properties in Spalding, Pinchbeck and Market Rasen, in a risk plan listing flooding among the county's…
Ideal Heating has issued a product safety notice requiring a thermostat upgrade on ten boiler ranges made between August 2022 and 7 January 2024 to prevent a potential boiler overheat.
South Staffordshire Water was targeted by ransomware actors who claimed to have accessed systems controlling industrial processes at its water treatment plants, a parliamentary committee report has…
A drought was officially declared in 8 areas across England, and South West Water has announced a hosepipe ban for Cornwall and parts of North Devon from Tuesday 23 August.
Waterwise issued hot weather water saving advice in August 2022 as temporary usage bans, known as hosepipe bans, got underway in some parts of the UK after the driest July in England since 1911.
The UK Health Security Agency first published its public health advice on drought for England on 28 July 2022, covering dehydration, hygiene, mental health and water supply during dry periods.
Guidance on flooding and public mental health was added to the UK government's flooding health collection on 20 July 2022, alongside existing advice for the public and frontline responders.
The Met Office issued a Yellow Thunderstorm Warning for parts of the Southeast for Wednesday 20 July 2022, as the first ever Red Extreme Heat warning remained in place after UK temperatures passed…
The Met Office says the UK recorded its highest ever temperature of 40.3°C at Coningsby in Lincolnshire on 19 July 2022, the first time 40°C has been recorded in the UK.
A wildfire in Wennington, east London, on 19 July 2022 during the UK heatwave destroyed about 18 to 19 houses, with no deaths, and fire services recorded 983 wildfires in England and Wales that year.