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3/27/12

European Weather: Blazing hot Britain! As temperatures soar, parched countryside is catching fire - by Tamara Cohen

A fireman marches through the still smouldering trees and darkly scorched earth in a scene reminiscent of the aftermath of an Australian bush fire.

Elsewhere, flames and billowing smoke rise from what looks like a battlefield and paint the night sky.

These extraordinary pictures tell the story of a nation in the grip of drought yesterday – Britain’s hottest day of the year so far – when the tinder-dry conditions suddenly erupted in a series of wild fires.

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