The government's advisors on climate change warn that Britain's homes are not fit for hotter summers.
She lives in a dramatic modern building beside a canal in the Ancoats area just outside Manchester's city centre.
She says she recorded temperatures of 36C last summer and worries it could get even hotter this week. "The bedroom can be over thirty degrees," says Sydney. "Sometimes I use ice packs to keep cool in bed." As a result, heat is not always mentioned as a factor on death certificates, which makes it hard for coroners and medical professionals to assess how big a health hazard it really is.
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