Wildfires still feel like something we associate with southern Europe, Australia or California. We see aircraft filling up from the sea, helicopters carrying large buckets of water and whole communities being evacuated. It’s easy to assume that fires here are smaller and easier to deal with. That’s becoming harder to…
It’s not every day that the Government tells us to think about emergency supplies, power cuts, water outages and what we’d do if the phone network stopped working. But that’s the direction of travel in 2026. In July, the Government published its 2026 Resilience Action Plan implementation report, alongside an…
On 28th April 2025, a significant power outage swept across Spain and Portugal, stretching into parts of southern France. Millions of people found themselves suddenly without electricity, with transport networks grinding to a halt and shops struggling to operate. In some areas, there were reports of panic buying as residents…
In recent weeks, Birmingham has been facing a growing waste emergency. With bin collections disrupted across the city, rubbish is piling up on the streets, causing concern for residents and health officials alike. The BBC and Birmingham Mail have both reported on the mounting risks — from rats and flies…
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