Concerns over vulnerable people during heatwave

Concerns have been raised about the affect of the heat wave on vulnerable people.

A red heat-health alert was issued by the The UK Health Security Agency for Lincolnshire and other parts of the UK, with temperatures expected to exceed 30C over the next few days.

Warnings have been issued by public health experts about the risk of heat exhaustion and heatstroke, especially for vulnerable people

One care home in Gainsborough has installed an ice cream machine to try and help residents beat the heat.

Denise Green from the Grosvenor House Care Home said: "We have lots of vulnerable residents with us and it's important that we take care of their needs, especially with hydration.

"Because if we don't, they become unwell very quickly and need to be hospitalised and we don't want that."

As well as the ice creams on offer the home has a drinks trolley and is providing a range of fruit.

Resident Steve Stanley said staff were making sure everybody "got whatever they need".

Another resident, John Howell, said: "I'm finding the hot weather very difficult to cope with.

"It makes one feel very tired. The air con does help and the ice creams I love."

In Grimsby, Stacey Brown, who works at homeless support centre Harbour Place, said the extreme weather had brought extra problems for people living on the streets.

Steve who was visiting the centre said that the hot weather was "absolutely unbearable".

"You're going through so much water, you're dehydrated," he said.

"I went instead to a medical centre down near Nunsthorpe just to ask for a cup of water because I wasn't going to make it."

Brown said that people who are sleeping rough struggle with having to carry all their belongings with them in the heat.

"Nobody wants to be carrying anything extra," she said.

"We just said, 'Do you want a bottle of water?' and he's like, 'I can't carry any more stuff'.

"He's trying to carry it all, you know, and then he's walking around all day and [his] feet are swelling."

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