Heatstroke can be dangerous and come on more quickly than you realise. With temperatures rocketing, it’s important to know how to recognise the signs.

Spending too much time in the heat or overly exerting yourself in the sun can cause heatstroke.

During the heatwaves we’ve increasingly experienced in recent years, health officials have reiterated how important it is to prevent children and older people from falling victim to the high temperatures.

But do you know how to tell heat exhaustion from heatstroke?

Heat exhaustion is what happens when the body overheats and cannot cool down.

It usually doesn’t require emergency medical attention, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), as long as you can cool yourself down within 30 minutes.

Common symptoms of heat exhaustion include:

• tiredness
• weakness
• feeling faint
• headache
• muscle cramps
• feeling or being sick
• heavy sweating
• intense thirst

If you do not take action to cool down, heat exhaustion can lead to heatstroke, which is a lot more serious.

Heatstroke is where the body is no longer able to cool down and your body’s temperature becomes dangerously high.

Common symptoms of heatstroke include:

• confusion
• lack of co-ordination
• fast heartbeat
• fast breathing or shortness of breath
• hot skin that is not sweating
• seizures

Heatstroke is a medical emergency. If you think someone has heatstroke you should dial 999 and then try to cool them down.

Dr Luke Powles from Bupa Health Clinics said people exhibiting symptoms should be cooled down. “Move them into a cool place, get them to lie down and put their feet up,” he explained. “Give them plenty of water and cool their skin with a cold pack, or towel.”

It might also help to remove unnecessary items of clothing like socks. You could also fan them to try and cool them down.

The person should start feeling better within 30 minutes – if not, it is very important to seek medical help immediately.

Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of cool drinks, but avoid alcohol. It’s also beneficial to keep cool by: wearing light fabrics, avoiding the sun between 11am and 3pm, sprinkling water over your skin and taking cool showers.

Avoid exercising and try to keep your home cool by closing curtains and windows, and turn off electrical equipment or lights.

If heatstroke symptoms progress to the ones listed below – or the person is no better after 30 minutes – you should call 999:

• They feel hot and dry.

• They aren’t sweating even though they are too hot. Their skin might also look red – this can be harder to spot on brown and Black skin, according to the NHS.

• They have a very high temperature that’s risen to 40°C or above.

• They have rapid breathing or shortness of breath.

• They’re confused.

• They have a fit (seizure).

• They lose consciousness (if this happens, put them in the recovery position while you wait for help).

• They are unresponsive.

Keir Starmer has set out a timetable for his departure from No.10 after resigning as prime minister.

In a statement delivered on Downing Street on Monday morning, the prime minister said his party has been asked if he is best placed to lead us into the next general election.

“I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question and I accept that answer with good grace,” he said. “Every decision I’ve taken has been about putting the country I love first.

“That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party.

“I have spoken to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision.”

Starmer said the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party will set out a timetable to make sure a new leader is in place by the time parliament returns after its summer recess.

Nominations will open for the leadership on July 9, a week before parliament’s summer recess, and if there is a contest, it will be completed by September 1 when MPs return to Westminster.

Until then he will remain in post as prime minister, Starmer said.

“I will give my successor my full and unequivocal support,” he said.

Tearing up, the prime minister said he will focus on the “most important job”, adding: “Being the best husband I can, to my fantastic wife Vic, who has been a rock by my side through good times and bad.”

He continued: “And being the best dad that I can to my beautiful children, who are my pride and joy.”

The prime minister’s announcement comes after Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election last Friday.

The soon-to-be-former Greater Manchester mayor is Starmer’s greatest rival and has had his eye on the keys to No.10 for some time.

Burnham was widely expected to challenge Starmer’s leadership after winning the contest for the north-west seat.

Labour Party rules state only an MP with the support of 81 other MPs can fire the starting gun on a leadership challenge.

Burnham had been pushing for Starmer to step down quietly so it would be a coronation for the new Makerfield MP.

The prime minister initially refused, saying he would fight on.

Asked if he would stand in any possible leadership election on Friday morning, Starmer said “there isn’t one at the moment” and that holding one would send “the country into chaos”.

But he added: “If there is a contest, then yes I will run, I will stand, and I’ve said repeatedly I’m not going to walk away from that.”

However, pressure from his own cabinet ministers appears to have moved the needle.

Two former cabinet ministers, Wes Streeting and John Healey, also quit over Starmer’s leadership in the last month.

Business and trade secretary Peter Kyle revealed his boss was weighing up the “political realities” in the coming days on Sunday.

It now remains to be seen if anyone other than Burnham will throw their hat into the ring to be the next Labour leader.

Streeting, the former health secretary, did indicate he would run but there are concerns he does not have enough backing from Labour MPs to run.

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Anna Faris has made some rare comments about her divorce from Chris Pratt.

In a new interview with Variety, the Scary Movie star reflected on her painful split from Chris, to whom she was married for eight years before their 2017 break-up, and the scrutiny she faced from the public after she and the Marvel actor parted ways.

The divorce was finalised in 2018.

“I was feeling sad,” Anna recalled. “I do feel like I had enough gumption, enough of a core, and I have tried to be careful about how much Hollywood infiltrates, but now I’ve been on a spectrum of fame for 26 years, so I would be naïve to think that it hasn’t shaped who I am at this point.”

“But, fuck,” she added. “The scrutiny…”

Anna, who shares 13-year-old son Jack with her ex-husband, credited her podcast, Anna Faris Is Unqualified, for giving her a support system and helping her deal with the public break-up.

“I didn’t disclose a lot on the podcast, but I always felt like I could if I needed to. The podcast helped me a lot during that time,” she said.

Anna later tied the knot with cinematographer Michael Barrett in 2021. Meanwhile, Chris got remarried to Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019. He and his second wife have since welcomed three more children.

Speaking to People in October 2017, Anna said that she and the Guardians Of The Galaxy star have remained close pals and were focused on co-parenting their son.

“We’ll always have each other and be incredible friends,” she said at the time.

“There is still so much laughter in our lives together, and he is so proud of me, still. We watched each other grow, and he still cracks me up all the time.”

Chris told Entertainment Weekly in 2018 that “divorce sucks” while discussing the split.

“But at the end of the day, we’ve got a great kid [Jack] who’s got two parents who love him very much,” he noted. “And we’re finding a way to navigate this while still remaining friends and still being kind to one another.”

Keir Starmer is about to resign, according to widespread reports.

Less than two years after his landslide victory in the 2024 general election, the prime minister seems to have lost the support of his party.

More than 100 Labour MPs have publicly called for him to quit and a growing list of his own cabinet ministers are said to have privately told him to stand down.

Two former cabinet ministers, Wes Streeting and John Healey, even quit over Starmer’s leadership in the last month.

Business and trade secretary Peter Kyle revealed his boss was weighing up the “political realities” in the coming days on Sunday.

Meanwhile, skills minister Jacqui Smith caused a stir when she seemed to hint the PM was heading off on Monday morning.

She told Times Radio, “I would have been happy for him to continue” – but later urged journalists not to get ahead of themselves by predicting Starmer’s next move.

Even so, the Guardian reported on Monday that Starmer was allegedly working on his resignation speech with a handful of his top team while holed up in his grace-and-favour Chequers residence over the weekend.

If that is true, it’s a complete pivot from last Friday when Starmer insisted he would not walk away from the job and would stay on to fight any leadership contest triggered by his opponents.

But No.10 has not pushed back on any reports that the PM is considering resigning, even after US president Donald Trump bizarrely predicted Starmer would quit on Sunday.

However, even if he does announce his decision to quit on Monday, several key questions remain.

Will Starmer agree to an “orderly transition” to his successor and stay in place until September?

That would allow him to tie up his legacy while building on his international reputation by attending a Nato summit and an EU “reset” summit, both in July.

It would also give his successor a chance to build up a body of policies so they can hit the ground running.

But will that successor automatically be Andy Burnham?

The outgoing Greater Manchester mayor won the Makerfield by-election last Thursday, giving him a seat in parliament and a chance to challenge Starmer’s leadership.

He is widely expected to have the support of the required 81 Labour MPs needed to oust the prime minister.

As the most popular politician within Labour, a Burnham victory is likely to be shoo-in in any leadership contest.

Several of his allies therefore want to skip holding such a disruptive race altogether, and have a “coronation” for Burnham.

But opponents suggest that would mean he does not have a mandate to rule if there has not been a battle of ideas among party members first.

Home Office minister Mike Tapp also weighed into the growing debate over whether a Starmer resignation means there should be a general election.

He said: “That would stop the constant churn and focus all politicians on delivery, instead of workplace politics.”

But that’s caused concern over the risk of further upheaval, especially as the UK teeters on the edge of its seventh prime minister in a decade.

Starmer is expected to give a statement in the Commons this afternoon to give MPs an update about his G7 trip last week.

Will he have offered any clarity about his future by then – or leave Westminster in limbo?

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Vanessa Feltz has admitted that the news of her daytime show’s cancellation came out of the blue.

Last year, the veteran broadcaster began fronting the talk show Vanessa on 5 (previously known as Channel 5), in which she and a celebrity panel discuss topical issues and speak to viewers calling into the studio.

Since it premiered in March 2025, the show has hit a few bumps in the road, most notably low viewing figures and a string of prank calls during its phone-in discussions.

Last week, 5 confirmed on Thursday that Vanessa was being pulled from next month.

“Due to afternoon scheduling changes, Vanessa will be rested from 17 July,” a spokesperson said. “We thank Vanessa and her team at ITN for 18 months of warm, witty, wise and searingly honest shows.”

Vanessa broke her silence on the news during Saturday’s edition of her LBC show, telling her listeners: “It was a bit of a shock. It was meant to be a delightful year’s contract, the show was going really well…

“I was shocked to the core and very upset and I still am. It was only Wednesday at 3 o’clock that I found out.”

Vanessa went on to claim that it was 5 owners Paramount who made the decision, as they “want to show Paramount movies every afternoon” in her timeslot, because it “doesn’t cost them any money”.

A 5 spokesperson added last week: “Vanessa remains a valued member of the Channel 5 family and we are discussing future projects together.”

Prior to landing her own 5 series, Vanessa had been a regular face on This Morning.

She previously told Metro that she “would happily have stayed” part of This Morning’s on-air team “and gone on the back of a motorbike from the This Morning studio straight to 5 and done both”.

“I almost believed I’d be able to do that, but I think apparently, it’s not the way it’s done,” she added. “But I’d have done it, and I think they would have been happy for me to do it too.”