Laura Loomer, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump known for her incendiary social media commentary, held a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, following a significant shift in her stance on the conflict that could have political implications in Washington.

For years, Loomer had downplayed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and disseminated Russian propaganda to her nearly two million followers. However, this week marked a notable change of heart for the activist.

“Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is everyday for every Ukrainian,” Loomer posted on X. “I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say.”

This represents a striking reversal for Loomer, who had previously spent years criticizing U.S. support for Ukraine’s defense, labeling the nation “a country full of Nazi apologists” — a claim Russia has used to justify its prolonged invasion — and asserting it was “led by a Jihadi apologist.”

The skepticism of Ukraine has been shared by other high profile conservative influencers, including former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

The meeting with Zelenskyy was confirmed by Dmytro Lytvyn, a spokesperson for the president, who said that no Ukrainian government institution had organized the visit. He added that Zelenskyy’s office first learned that Loomer was in Ukraine through social media.

“It is really important that @LauraLoomer is in Ukraine and sees things with her own eyes as they are,” Zelenskyy’s office had written Tuesday.

“It takes courage to come to Ukraine and not be deterred by Russian propaganda or air raid sirens. Thank you, Laura,” they added Thursday.

Loomer did not respond to a request for comment.

In addition to the meeting with Zelenskyy, Loomer also visited the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the country’s most significant religious landmarks, which came under Russian attack last month.

The attack on the monastic complex of golden domes in the heart of Kyiv, which is also known as the Monastery of the Caves, sparked a fire that caused significant interior and exterior damage, according to UNESCO. Zelenskyy had called it Moscow’s “biggest crime yet against Christian culture.”

Russia denied responsibility for the attack, claiming, without offering evidence, that the complex was hit by one of Ukraine’s U.S.-made Patriot air defense missiles — saying that it might have veered off course due to its age.

In a video recorded from inside the church, Loomer accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of hypocrisy by portraying Russia as pro-Christian.

“I just don’t think that you should be allowed to say that you’re protecting Christianity if you’re trying to drone strike Jesus Christ,” she said.

Sergiy Kyslytsya and Tetyana Berezhna, two top Ukrainian officials, were among those who met with Loomer and joined her for the visit.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the trip.

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The Nando’s Air Fryer Seasonings have now appeared in stores, with shoppers describing them as a “game changer” for cooking.

Designed to bring the chain’s signature PERi-PERi flavours into shoppers’ homes, the seasonings are designed to coat foods, including chicken wings, chips, vegetables, halloumi and more.

They are available in three flavours: Medium, PERi-BBQ, and PERi-Paprika & Garlic.

Nando’s has launched three new flavours of Air Fryer Seasonings, which have been spotted on shelves at Sainsbury’s (Image: Jam Press/Sainsbury’s)

Each 100g tub is currently listed on the Sainsbury’s website for £3, according to creatorzine.com, but Nectar card holders can currently buy them for £2.50 under the Nectar Prices scheme.

Sainsbury’s said: “Everyone’s favourite kitchen appliance needed a bit of seasoning.”

The seasonings were highlighted on Facebook by food-spotting page Newfoodsuk, prompting positive comments from shoppers.

One user simply wrote: “Yum”.

Another said: “Another seasoning for the collection”.

This person described the new addition as a “game changer”.

The range marks Nando’s expansion beyond its restaurants and further into the grocery aisle.

Sainsbury’s pledges to help customers eat more fibre

The news comes following Sainsbury’s announcement last month that detailed its plans to help consumers eat more fibre.

It launched a new Full on Fibre labelling scheme across more than 500 products as part of a wider effort to add thousands of tonnes of fibre and millions more portions of fruit and vegetables to UK diets by 2030.

The move comes amid growing concerns that only 4% of UK adults consume enough fibre, according to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey.

The average UK adult consumes just 19g of fibre per day, well below the Government’s daily recommended target of 30g.

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Simon Roberts, chief executive of Sainsbury’s, said: “Healthy eating shouldn’t feel difficult or complex – but for many families, it does.

“We know lots of people want to eat well but tight budgets, busy lives and confusing advice can make this feel overwhelming.

“We want to change that.

“We’re going further to make healthy everyday essentials great value at Sainsbury’s – beginning with fibre, fruit and veg – and tackling the confusion so customers can eat well without having to think too hard about it.

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“We’re aiming to take away the complexity so good food becomes simple for everyone.”

The supermarket’s new labelling includes high-fibre products on its Aldi Price Match or Nectar Price schemes, such as oats, beans, and broccoli.

It will also appear on new items launching this summer, including Sainsbury’s Mediterranean Style Veg Burgers and Spiced Mixed Nuts & Seeds with Apple Granola.

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Nexgen’s Golf offer will add to well established health and fitness facilities onsite at Maxim Park.

Maxim Park has announced the expansion of its indoor golf centre.

Scotland’s largest business park located in Eurocentral, Motherwell, has announced that Nexgen Golf run by golf professional Chris Tierney is set to expand Scotland’s home of indoor golf, to take 1,800 sq ft of retail space on the ground floor at Maxim 3.

Nexgen’s Golf offer will add to well established health and fitness facilities onsite at Maxim Park.

Mighty Rick’s gym run by boxing world champion Ricky Burns, bike hire, yoga classes and a putting green, are just some of the wellbeing amenities at the Park.

Chris Tierney, of Nexgen Golf, said: “We are extremely excited to announce that Nexgen Golf is opening its second site at the wonderful Maxim Park.

“After our refurbishment we will be delighted to be Lanarkshire’s very first 24/7 indoor golf centre. We will be partnering with the world’s leading launch monitor and simulator company Trackman.

“Our 3 Trackman iO bays will be a focal point of our facility, allowing golfers of all abilities to become immersed in virtual golf whether it’s having fun on the course or practicing with a purpose.

“Coaching, corporate events, product launches and much more will make Nexgen Maxim Park the number one destination for indoor golf in Scotland.”

Caroline Baillie, Director of Park Services, added: “We are pleased to welcome Nexgen Golf to Maxim. It represents another important addition to the growing mix of businesses and amenities available here, creating an even more vibrant destination for occupiers and the wider community.

“High quality leisure facilities play an important role, helping to support employee wellbeing, encourage collaboration and more opportunities for people to connect beyond the office.

“We are confident Nextgen Golf will be a popular attraction, offering a year round experience for golfers of all abilities while further enhancing the appeal of Maxim as a great place to work, visit and do business.”

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The former Matthew Henson Elementary School in North Lawndale has sat vacant since it closed in June 2013.

The building’s windows are boarded up with plywood, its paint is chipping away and its basketball hoops are torn and rusted. Demetrius Hobson, Henson’s principal before its closure, said he’s seen broken glass littering the school’s empty playground, the garden unkempt and graffiti dotting the exterior in the 13 years since its closure.

“When you go over there and you drive around, you see this dead zone in the middle of the neighborhood,” Hobson said. “From a vibrant, bustling center of support for the children and for the adults in the community to just blight.”

Henson, 1326 S. Avers Ave., was one of 50 Chicago public schools that closed amid the largest mass closure of public schools in the nation’s history in 2013, more than half of which remained vacant for the decade that followed, despite the city setting a goal to sell or tear down all closed buildings by 2017. Most of the closed schools, like Henson, were in majority-Black areas.

MKB Business Strategies agreed to buy Henson for $25,000 in December and plans to demolish the building to replace it with housing units. Eight former schools are still unoccupied and publicly owned.

“It’s just an abandoned space that no one has done anything with, as was promised when schools were closed,” Hobson said.

Now, 13 years after the closures, researchers at the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that neighborhoods surrounding these long-vacant buildings saw a 10 percent increase in gun violence, compared to similar neighborhoods where schools didn’t close.

Chicago Public Schools educators say these findings are unsurprising and confirm the alarm bells they raised when fighting the 2013 school closures.

“These communities deserve an apology for the chaos and the disinvestment in them,” Hobson said.

CPS spokesperson Mary Ann Fergus said the district and the city formed an advisory committee aimed at redeveloping the closed school properties, which includes real estate professionals, community members and elected officials. CPS evaluates proposals for the properties based on financial feasibility, community benefits, alignment with local planning and community input, she said.

CPS has worked to repurpose the eight remaining former school properties, getting bids for five of the sites this year. The district will present the bids to the community via meetings before they potentially progress.

Elizabeth Tung, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and a study co-author, said the research didn’t see the same increase in gun violence surrounding closed schools that had been repurposed. One example is Anthony Overton Center for Excellence, 4927 S. Indiana Ave. in Bronzeville, which was converted into a community hub.

“Reuse seemed to mitigate, at least in part, the impact of school closure,” Tung said. “Whereas for the schools that remained vacant, and you had a massive vacant lot and an empty building, that’s where you really saw the increase in firearm violence.”

Tung and Statchen said they hope the study’s findings add nuance to decisions about school closures by underscoring that the consequences extend beyond academics. They said the results should prompt policymakers to weigh whether closing a school is appropriate in the first place and to make the reuse of a school building building — as a community hub or gathering space — a central part of any closure plan.

“We still need to think about those individual students, but I think that we also need to think about the neighborhood effects in the communities that are impacted as well, because it’s not just individual students that are impacted by school closure,” Tung said. “And then for every student who does well at a new school, there’s probably another student who never makes it to school because of transportation issues and lack of access.”

More Than Just A School

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates said the study “rightfully” captures the trauma and ongoing consequences of school closures for Black children and Black neighborhoods.

Gates — who served as the union’s political director in 2013 and protested in hopes of stopping the closures — said she worried at the time that violence would rise because the South and West side communities targeted for closures had already endured generations of disinvestment, leading to more students experiencing homelessness and many others traveling long distances each day to get to school.

“I wish they would listen to Black people. I wish they would listen to educators,” Gates said. “I wish that people in power would understand the legacy of the impacts of this trauma of closing public schools.”

Gates began teaching history in 2004 at Englewood Technical Prep Academy High School, a public school that closed in 2008 — one of 18 schools shuttered that year.

Gates said Englewood Tech took in every student who lived within its attendance boundary, and its closure stripped the neighborhood of that guarantee. Some former students were excluded from local schools due to selective enrollment, and some encountered violence when they had to travel into other neighborhoods to attend school, she said.

Chicago has had a moratorium on school closures since 2021, but that expires at the close of the 2026-27 academic year. Gates said the study’s findings should push city and state leaders to keep the moratorium in place.

Gates said as November’s Chicago Board of Education elections loom, candidates should have clear plans for reopening vacant buildings as community anchors and investing in after-school programs that keep students connected to their schools.

“I think this study gives us a lot of evidence, beyond the evidence that we’ve had previously, to say that anyone who supports school closings as a policy, that those people intend to do harm to Black families,” Gates said.

Hobson, the former Henson principal, said the study’s findings didn’t surprise him because the 2013 decision to close 50 schools created pockets of blight across Chicago with little police presence, making them attractive to criminally minded people. He said some of the school’s students had family members involved in street gangs with boundaries that shifted block to block, and the closures forced children and families to cross lines daily.

Hobson said he had only been principal for a year prior to the school’s closure and had hoped to change its culture. He reached out to his network and brought in 100 volunteers from Teach for America, Deloitte & Touche and AT&T to paint the building and rearrange storage rooms into intervention centers.

Hobson said the school forged a partnership with the Greater Chicago Food Depository to provide free groceries to community members every week and a high-quality health clinic in partnership with Erie Family Health Centers for the neighborhood.

“You have a community that’s been so disinvested in over the years, and they can see other communities being invested in,” Hobson said. “It’s a message being communicated to the people in that community about their value.”

Tenesha Hatter, Henson’s former assistant principal, said Henson’s closure was devastating. It was a multi-generational school where some students’ parents and grandparents had also attended, she said. She said they “couldn’t keep people out of the school” — there was a parent room that families used every day to work and congregate because they wanted to be in the building.

“It really was more than just a school,” Hatter said. “It was really a place where the community felt safe and felt that they could contribute to it and that we could contribute to the community.”

That Henson had been left vacant “speaks volumes” and signals that the city doesn’t care about the community, Hatter said. She said she hopes the city invests in finding a better hub for the community in an effort to begin to reconcile the harm the closure caused.

“I think it’s the responsibility of CPS to now, over a decade later, try to make amends to that community for destroying it or demolishing it,” Hatter said.

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This story was originally published by Block Club Chicago and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.

By ALEX RASKIN, US SPORTS NEWS EDITOR

Published: 15:43 BST, 23 July 2026 | Updated: 19:40 BST, 23 July 2026

Former World No 1 tennis player Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is now broke and currently giving half her earnings to the bank to avoid a prison sentence after her ex-husband squandered her $41 million fortune, she claimed in a bombshell interview.

‘I fell blindly in love, and he really isn’t the person I thought he was,’ she told Spanish TV show ‘Universo Callejo,’ as quoted by The Sun.

In 2024, a Barcelona-based court found that she and her former husband Josep Santacana committed fraud by hiding assets in an effort to avoid a massive debt to Banque de Luxembourg. But while Santacana was sentenced to three years and three months in jail, Sanchez Vicario got a two-year suspended sentence as a first-time offender.

The former couple, who divorced in 2019, was also ordered to pay €6.6million ($7.5 million, £5.6m) in compensation.

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But as the four-time Grand Slam winner told ‘Universo Callejo,’ she knew nothing of her husband’s financial dealings.

‘I focused on playing tennis and never handled my own financial affairs because I didn’t know how,’ she said, according to The Sun. ‘I trusted my husband… And the [€36million] vanished. I was left to shoulder the entire burden.’

Former World No.1 tennis player Arantxa Sanchez Vicario is now broke and currently giving half her earnings to the bank to avoid a prison sentence, she claimed in a bombshell interview

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Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and her now-ex husband Josep Santacana are seen in 2012 

Josep Santacana talks to the press in Barcelona during his trial on September 12, 2023

There are some varying accounts on how she’s avoided prison.

In 2024, The Athletic reported that it is customary in Spain for first-time offenders sentenced to two years or less to have those prison terms suspended.

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But as she told ‘Universo Callejo,’ it was only through a financial arrangement with the bank that she managed to stay free.

‘I did not go to jail because I am paying 50 percent of my earnings to the bank,’ she said. ‘I am complying when deep down I was a victim.

‘It was a shock,’ she continued. ‘I had to go to therapy because I couldn’t believe it. It was like waking up from a dream and thinking, ‘This can’t be happening to me.”

The Daily Mail has sought comment from Santacana’s attorney.

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In addition to her four Grand Slam singles titles, Sanchez Vicario also has a pair of Olympic silver and a pair of Olympic bronze medals from the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Games

Sanchez Vicario smiles after falling to Monica Seles (left) at the 1991 French Open in Pairs 

The 54-year-old Sanchez Vicario was part of the generation of tennis stars that followed Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Along with Germany’s Steffi Graf and Yugoslavian-American star Monica Seles, Sanchez Vicario was part of a trio that dominated the sport from 1988 until the mid-1990s arrivals of Martina Hingis, Jennifer Capriati and the Williams sisters.

In addition to her four Grand Slam singles titles, Sanchez Vicario also has a pair of Olympic silver and a pair of Olympic bronze medals from the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Games.

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She and Santacana share a daughter, born in 2009, and a son who was born two years later.

Sanchez Vicario previously accused her parents and older brother of mismanaging her finances in a three-year court battle that ended with a private settlement in 2015. 

Prior to that, she was forced to pay back taxes and penalties after falsely claiming to be a resident of Andorra when she really lived in her native Barcelona.

By LETTICE BROMOVSKY, NEWS REPORTER

Published: 19:25 BST, 23 July 2026 | Updated: 19:35 BST, 23 July 2026

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been transferred to Broadmoor secure hospital, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.

The 19-year-old was transferred to the hospital from Belmarsh prison earlier this week after it was decided that he could not be managed safely in a prison environment. 

However some have already been quick to question whether the child killer is simply ‘playing the system’. 

Responding to the move to Broadmoor, Mark Fairhurst, the national chair of the POA union, which represents prison, correctional, and secure psychiatric workers, said his members believe he is ‘playing the system’ so he can move to a more comfortable environment.

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He told the Guardian: ‘[Rudakubana] is not mentally unwell. He is playing the system and is nothing more than evil. He should spend his entire sentence in solitary confinement staring at four walls.’

He was jailed for life in January 2025, with a minimum sentence of 52 years, for the ‘sadistic’ murders of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar.

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: ‘The families of those murdered and injured in Southport will be in this country’s heart for ever and our thoughts remain with them.

‘The offender who carried out these vile crimes will rightly spend the entirety of his 52-year custodial sentence locked up, and is unlikely to ever be released.

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‘High secure hospitals are not places of freedom. He will remain under constant supervision in a high-security psychiatric unit, and be returned to prison as soon as possible.

‘The transfer of an offender follows a robust independent clinical assessment.’

Axel Rudakubana was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 52 years, at Liverpool Crown Court in January last year

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(L-R) Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were all murdered in the atrocity on July 29, 2024

Anyone with information on Dominic should contact Gwent Police

Police officers are looking to locate a missing 13-year-old boy. Dominic was last seen at around 6am on Thursday, July 23 in Amroth Walk, St Dials, Cwmbran.

Dominic has also been seen in Cwmbran town centre and using Stagecoach buses (number 1 and number 6).

He is described as white, between 5’9” and six feet tall, with dark brown hair and green eyes.

Dominic was last known to be wearing a grey padded Hoodrich jacket with a black top underneath, black tracksuit bottoms and grey and white trainers. He was carrying a blue bag and a backpack.

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A spokesman for Gwent Police said: “Anyone with information on Dominic’s whereabouts should contact us via our website, direct message us on Facebook or X social media pages or call 101, quoting log reference 2600233810. Dominic is also asked to contact us.”

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Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate as another extreme heatwave moves across Sicily, Spain, France and other parts of southern Europe, igniting wildfires as temperatures exceed 44C.

Footage shows vast infernos sweeping through the island as dramatic fires scorched the Sicilian hills around Bivona in the central Agrigento province on Wednesday, while the capital of Palermo suffered blackouts.

In southwest France, more than 20,000 people have been evacuated near Bordeaux, officials said, as some 700 firefighters were called out to tackle the blaze near the popular coastal town of Lege Cap-Ferret.

It comes as Wales becomes the first UK region has officially declared a drought amid record dry conditions, intense heatwaves, wildfires and dwindling rivers. Across Europe, extreme heat supercharged by climate change has been sucking European soils dry, as warmer air pulls moisture from soil and rivers.

Near Bordeaux, two firefighters were killed earlier this week while battling a blaze near the city’s airport.

“Overnight, the fire spread more quickly than we had imagined,” acknowledged Philippe de Gonneville, the mayor of Lège-Cap Ferret. Authorities said 12,000 have already been evacuated, while around 8,800 are being moved.

Earlier this week, two firefighters were killed earlier this week while battling a blaze near the city’s airport.

In neighbouring Spain, authorities were still working to put out fires which have raged for several days. Spain’s railway infrastructure operator ADIF said train traffic between Mejorada del Campo and Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid, had been suspended due to a wildfire close to the tracks.

Across central Spain, firefighters, emergency personnel and military units remained deployed as authorities monitored multiple active fires, including blazes in Guadalajara, Toledo, Ciudad Real and Albacete.

Spain’s meteorological agency warned of “extraordinary danger” with temperatures of up to 44C on Thursday in some regions. Popular Spanish tourist spots, including the areas around Malaga, Valencia and Alicante, could see temperatures reach as high as 42C.

The disruption affected services on the high-speed rail line linking Madrid and Barcelona, one of the country’s busiest transport corridors.

More than 100,000 hectares have burned nationwide so far this year.

Meanwhile in Italy, a 59-year-old firefighter died after falling ill while battling a large wildfire near San Cataldo in Sicily.

The central areas of Cammarata, Santo Stefana Quisquina and Bivona suffered some of the worst impact of the islands huge wildfires, with health clinics evacuated, phone lines down, roads closed and farmland destroyed as residents helped authorities battle the flames.

More than 100 people were forced to evacuate from homes and clinics on the island, according to local media, as dozens of wildfires strained emergency services battling against fires that threatened rural areas, residential districts, and major public roads.

Temperatures in inland Sicily exceeded 40C on Wednesday for the second day running, reaching 43 C according to forecaster Ventusky.

On Thursday, the mercury will drop into the mid-30s across most of the island, with some central-northern areas reaching the high 30s. On Friday, the warmest temperatures will move southwards, before the entire island cools down to the low 30s on the weekend.

Farmer Marco Barbaccia told how a wind-fuelled wildfire destroyed olive groves, wiping out this year’s crop and damaging trees needed for future harvests.

“We were unable to save anything. We lost both this year’s harvest and the trees themselves, which means losing future production of Sicilian extra-virgin olive oil as well,” Mr Barbaccia said.

Italian newspaper La Republica reported that families had barricaded themselves in their homes to keep the smoke out.

“The heat was so intense that railings and doorknobs became red-hot,” the paper wrote. “Smoke engulfed several neighbourhoods, and by 4am temperatures in the city exceeded 40 degrees Celsius.”

Elsewhere in Europe, firefighters struggled on Tuesday to contain Spain’s largest wildfire of the year, while two firefighters were killed battling a fire in southwestern France, as an extreme heatwave continued to fuel dangerous conditions across Europe, bringing drought and forecasts of severe hailstorms.

In mainland Italy, temperatures have remained in the high 20s and low 30s, while on the island of Sardinia, they neared 40C on Wednesday. Sardinia will remain in the low-to-mid 30s for the rest of the week, with temperatures in mainland Italy around average for this time of year for the rest of the week.

The fires in Sicily, which were fueled by strong sirocco winds – those blowing northward from the Sahara Desert into Southern Europe – reached the western-central town of Santo Stefano Quisquina in the Agrigento province overnight into Wednesday.

The province of Palermo, Sicily’s capital, also battled dozens of fires damaging rural homes and businesses, forcing the temporary closure of the SS186 state road, and disrupting traffic on the Palermo-Catania motorway.

A health clinic, oxygen depot, fuel station and fireworks factory are all under surveillance by firefighters and other authorities, according to local media. Some 22 patients were evacuated from the Ignazio Attardi clinic as a precaution.

In Bivona, a wildfire emergency has caused damage to the water pipes, with emergency systems kicking into response, Mayor Milko Cina said. The TIM telephone line was also put out of service in the area.

He added that the situation is “improving” after authorities had to “evacuate all the houses along the state road between Bivona and Santo Stefano”.

Residents of the area helped put out fires since the early hours of Wednesday, Mr Cina said.

“Heartfelt thanks in particular to the many farmers who, with their excavators, shovels, tractors and their water-filled barrels, are still on site helping the population,” Mr Cina said. Farms and livestock farms have been damaged by the fires.

But he added that the situation is “improving” after authorities had to “evacuate all the houses along the state road between Bivona and Santo Stefano”

Although wildfires are not new to the region, scientists say they are becoming more frequent and intense as a result of stronger and longer heatwaves and droughts, due to the climate crisis.