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August 2024
1 August 2024
Heavy rain hits southern England and Wales on Thursday and Friday
The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for heavy, possibly thundery rain across southern and central England and southern Wales, following earlier heavy rain in southern England and Wales on…
1 August 2024
Confirmed or suspected CO incidents in the North of England rose 16% last summer
Northern Gas Networks reports that engineer visits to confirmed or suspected carbon monoxide incidents across the North East, Yorkshire and Cumbria rose by 16% in summer 2024 compared with summer…
1 August 2024
Storm Lilian brings strong winds to Welsh coastal areas
Storm Lilian brought strong winds to coastal areas around Wales on 22 and 23 August 2024, leading Natural Resources Wales to issue Flood Warnings and Flood Alerts.
July 2024
31 July 2024
Morco Products Ltd issues safety alert for open flued LPG water heaters
Morco Products Ltd has issued safety alert NR24-003 for Primo 6, Primo 11, EUP6 and EUP11 LPG open flued water heaters sold between 2018 and 2023, offering free upgrades over a potential gas leak fire…
31 July 2024
Met Office issues Yellow thunderstorm warnings for England and Wales
The Met Office issued Yellow thunderstorm warnings for southeastern England on Wednesday 31 July and for most of England and Wales on Thursday, with 50 to 100mm of rain possible in a few hours in the…
30 July 2024
UK records hottest day of the year so far with yellow heat health alerts in place
The UK recorded its hottest day of the year so far on Tuesday 30 July 2024, with yellow heat health alerts in place for millions of people until Friday and NHS heat advice views rising sharply.
30 July 2024
Visits to NHS heat exhaustion advice page almost triple as temperatures soar
Visits to the NHS website's heat exhaustion advice page rose 169% over 29 and 30 July compared with the previous weekend, peaking at 11,986 visits on Tuesday as yellow heat health alerts covered…
30 July 2024
Met Office issues Yellow weather warning as London temperatures expected to reach 32 degrees
The Met Office has issued a Yellow weather warning with temperatures in London expected to reach 32 degrees this week, and London Ambulance Service has asked the public to take care in the heat.
25 July 2024
LAS analysis reveals dozens of London neighbourhoods are defibrillator deserts
London Ambulance Service analysis has found dozens of London neighbourhoods are "defibrillator deserts" with little or no access to a defibrillator, as a charity campaign seeks to place more devices…
25 July 2024
NHS Blood and Transplant issues Amber Alert for O type blood
NHS Blood and Transplant has issued a national Amber Alert asking hospitals to restrict the use of O type blood to essential cases, after a cyber attack and a summer fall in donations increased…
19 July 2024
CrowdStrike outage grounds planes and freezes bank transactions
A faulty antivirus software update in July 2024 grounded aircraft, froze bank transactions and forced hospitals to cancel procedures, cited as an example of how a single technical failure can spread…
19 July 2024
Global IT outage disrupts NHS services across London
A global IT outage disrupted NHS services across London on 19 July 2024, mainly in GP practices, with NHS London advising patients to attend appointments as usual and use NHS 111 for urgent help.
19 July 2024
NHS London weekly update reports over 7,000 outpatient appointments postponed since attack
NHS England London reports that more than 7,000 outpatient appointments and over 1,500 elective procedures have been postponed at two south east London trusts since the 3 June ransomware attack on…
19 July 2024
NCSC statement on major global IT outage
The National Cyber Security Centre said organisations affected by the global IT outage on Friday 19 July 2024 should apply vendor mitigations, and warned of an increase in related phishing.
17 July 2024
New Flood Warning Information Services for Wales goes live
Natural Resources Wales brought its new Flood Warning Information Services for Wales into use on 17 July 2024, replacing the previous England and Wales system at a cost of £5m.
11 July 2024
NHS London publishes fifth weekly data update on Synnovis cyber incident clinical impact
NHS England London has published a fifth weekly update on the clinical impact of the Synnovis ransomware attack, showing 1,286 acute outpatient appointments and 100 elective procedures postponed in…
11 July 2024
Loss of gas supply affects around 320 properties in Bridlington YO16 4 area
Northern Gas Networks attended the YO16 4 area of Bridlington on 11 July 2024 after a loss of gas supply to about 320 properties, isolating supplies while working to restore gas.
10 July 2024
Government launches prepare.campaign.gov.uk emergency preparedness website
The government has launched a website at prepare.campaign.gov.uk encouraging people in England to think about how they would respond to risks including floods, fires and power cuts.
4 July 2024
Fourth weekly update shows 4,913 outpatient appointments postponed since attack began
NHS England's fourth weekly update records 4,913 acute outpatient appointments and 1,391 elective procedures postponed at two London trusts since the 3 June ransomware attack on Synnovis.