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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Government,mobile,phone,UK,summer,2026,safety,Emergency,Alert,Severe,wildfire warning,wildfire prevention,wildfire risk,August 2026,UK heatwave,summer heatwave,extreme heat,mobile phone alert,government,prevention,dry,drought,climate change,hot,conditions,barbecue,fire risk,civil protection,system,14 August 2026,14/08/2026,preparedness,countryside,danger,extreme heat warning,record summer temperatures hot dry conditions,farms
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FA7WTN - Smartphone displaying the UK Government Severe Alert issued on 14 August 2026 warning of a very high national risk of wildfires during an exceptionally hot and dry British summer. The emergency message advised residents, landowners and visitors to avoid activities capable of starting fires, including disposable barbecues, firepits, garden incinerators and fireworks, and urged people to call 999 immediately on seeing signs of fire.
The warning had a substantial evidence base. England had recorded its driest July on record, receiving only around 10% of its long-term average rainfall, while seven consecutive weeks had brought less than 10mm of rain nationally. By 10 August the UK summer mean temperature was 16.48C, 1.88C above the 1991-2020 average, making a record warm summer increasingly likely. A Met Office Amber Extreme Heat warning then forecast temperatures approaching 38C in places on 13 August. Fire services were already dealing with significant wildfires and the Met Office had explained that dry ground, heat, low humidity and wind can allow fires to spread rapidly.
Against that background, the danger prompting the alert was credible rather than hypothetical. Government guidance also identifies wildfires as the type of life-threatening emergency for which the mobile Emergency Alerts system may be used. Whether such a broad alert was proportionate remained open to debate: wildfire severity varied geographically and emergency warnings risk losing impact if used too readily. However, unusually dry vegetation, repeated heatwaves, active fires and pressure on emergency services gave authorities a strong factual case for urgent prevention messaging. The photograph can illustrate wildfire prevention, climate change, extreme weather, emergency communications, public safety, government warnings, heatwaves, drought, fire-service pressure and debate over the appropriate use of mass mobile alerts. It became a notable test of public acceptance of alerts.
United Kingdom
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,arable,famine,NFU,costs of production,production,Ukraine,bread,basket,Global,Food,Crisis,climate change,competition,feeding,people,wheat,supply,grain,grains,Climate Change,global,crisis,yield,grain yield,grain yields,food security,danger to,food insecurity,farming,farms,agriculture,crop,crops
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JEKT23 - How Wheat Shortage Is Sparking a Global Food Crisis
While climate change heightens competition for the already limited resources, many non-climate stressors are also putting immense pressure on our food system. Recently, all eyes are on the wheat shortage, as experts warn it could spark a global food crisis. The world's wheat supply is under immense pressure as the conflict in Ukraine as well as increasingly devastating weather events threaten production around the world. What sparked the issue and how are countries dealing with the shortage?
Why Is Everyone So Concerned About Wheat?
Following corn and soybeans, wheat is the third most common and widespread crop. As one of the oldest, cheapest, and most versatile grains, it remains today a critical component of food security.
This nutritious grain is essential in ensuring a sustainable global food supply for current and future generations. For centuries, wheat has been a staple ingredient not only in industrialised nations but especially in developing countries. Today, over 80% of the world's wheat is used for flour.
Despite being so widespread around the world, wheat production is in the hands of just a few countries. A staggering 86% of global wheat exports come from only seven countries, while just three of them hold nearly 68% of the world's wheat reserves, with some of the world's most vulnerable and impoverished countries relying on them for more than half of their wheat imports.
wheat shortage
Both Ukraine and Russia are key players in the highly concentrated international wheat market. Described by many as the breadbaskets for much of the world, these two nations alone account for just under 30% of the world's wheat exports. Most of the wheat they produce is sent to North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, with countries like Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Yemen among the largest importers. In 2020, Russia and Ukraine also contributed 20% to the total food commodities procured by the Wor
Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@Hotpixuk,Hotpixuk,arable,famine,NFU,costs of production,production,Ukraine,bread,basket,Global,Food,Crisis,climate change,competition,feeding,people,wheat,supply,grain,grains,Climate Change,global,crisis,yield,grain yield,grain yields,food security,danger to,food insecurity,farming,farms,agriculture,animal,food,winter feed,feed
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JEKPJY - How Wheat Shortage Is Sparking a Global Food Crisis
While climate change heightens competition for the already limited resources, many non-climate stressors are also putting immense pressure on our food system. Recently, all eyes are on the wheat shortage, as experts warn it could spark a global food crisis. The world's wheat supply is under immense pressure as the conflict in Ukraine as well as increasingly devastating weather events threaten production around the world. What sparked the issue and how are countries dealing with the shortage?
Why Is Everyone So Concerned About Wheat?
Following corn and soybeans, wheat is the third most common and widespread crop. As one of the oldest, cheapest, and most versatile grains, it remains today a critical component of food security.
This nutritious grain is essential in ensuring a sustainable global food supply for current and future generations. For centuries, wheat has been a staple ingredient not only in industrialised nations but especially in developing countries. Today, over 80% of the world's wheat is used for flour.
Despite being so widespread around the world, wheat production is in the hands of just a few countries. A staggering 86% of global wheat exports come from only seven countries, while just three of them hold nearly 68% of the world's wheat reserves, with some of the world's most vulnerable and impoverished countries relying on them for more than half of their wheat imports.
wheat shortage
Both Ukraine and Russia are key players in the highly concentrated international wheat market. Described by many as the breadbaskets for much of the world, these two nations alone account for just under 30% of the world's wheat exports. Most of the wheat they produce is sent to North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, with countries like Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Yemen among the largest importers. In 2020, Russia and Ukraine also contributed 20% to the total food commodities procured by the Wor
Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4,nature,natural,farmed,crops,arable,crop,farm,farms,for,animal,feed,feeds,food,the,world,feeding,of,grass,in,a,field,inputs,grain,nearly,ready,to,be,north west,shallow,focus
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JDDWEF - . Recorded at Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 in 2022, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The main point of reference is Ear of barley in a field nearly ready to be harvested, arable crop, farming for animal feeds, food, brewing etc, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4. The frame also records themes of social history, independent food retail, hospitality trade, casual dining, customer-facing service, regional identity, public realm, archival record, visual archive, food-and-drink business, local character, leisure spending, commercial hospitality, and documentary photography. Today's relevance is strengthened by changing dining habits, commercial rents and the continuing question of the role of restaurants and bars in visitor-led regeneration. Small period details of signage and branding at Cheshire, England, UK, WA4 may become more significant with time, particularly following changing commercial priorities. Further associations within the scene are local history, before-and-after reference, changing land use, restaurant culture, food tourism, local dining scene, night-time economy, and contemporary social history. The combination of arable, brewing, barley, farming, and nearly anchors the frame to a recognisable activity, place or moment. Around Cheshire, England, UK, WA4, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The setting also helps illustrate changing dining habits and the role of restaurants and bars in visitor-led regeneration without losing the local specificity of Cheshire, England, UK, WA4. The image also provides a reference for changing dining habits and how changing discretionary spending affects hospitality venues in a form that can be compared with future views of Cheshire, England, UK, WA4.
Cheshire, England, UK, WA4
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,High Peak,Derbyshire,England,UK,S33 8WA,cattle,hill,hill farming,nature,remote,road,single track,farms,farming,lamp,mutton,ruminants,ruminant,prices,per,KG,struggles,struggling,subsidy,agriculture,NFU,withdrawal,of,subsidies,post-Brexit,rural,hillside,hillsides
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2CC79TB - . An authentic period record of Winnats Pass, Castleton, Hope Valley, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK ,S33 8WA, retaining the practical visual detail that later redevelopment, rebranding or altered use can remove. The photograph is concerned with Sheep grazing at Winnats Pass, Castleton, Hope Valley, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK ,S33 8WA. The scene can also be read in terms of architectural character, community identity, conservation architecture, built environment, social history, architectural contrast, local history, public realm, place identity, built heritage, changing streetscape, documentary photography, social landscape, and historical comparison. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes redevelopment pressure alongside adaptive reuse, with particular attention to using existing buildings rather than demolishing them. The photograph fixes landscape and surrounding development within Winnats Pass, Castleton, Hope Valley, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK ,S33 8WA at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against different community use. A second layer of the scene includes period detail, urban fabric, everyday Britain, period building, visual archive, cityscape history, local character, and heritage asset. Elements such as grazing, Valley, Sheep, Winnats, and Derbyshire add documentary specificity and may become useful when the scene is compared with later records. The surrounding context at Winnats Pass, Castleton, Hope Valley, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK ,S33 8WA matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. Another strand within the photograph is redevelopment pressure and the contrast between historic fabric and modern development within the real-world context of Winnats Pass, Castleton, Hope Valley, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK ,S33 8WA.
Winnats Pass, Castleton, Hope Valley, High Peak, Derbyshire, England, UK ,S33 8WA
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Warrington,WBC,South Warrington,North West England,UK,pathway,Countryside public right of way,path,sign warning to keep to the path,control dogs,The Countryside code,Countryside code,Cheshire West and Chester,Cheshire,England,farm,farm land,farms,land,field,arable,keep,to,on,the,paths,countryside,code,rule,rules,notice,guidance,respect
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy T3RF3C - The Countryside Code is a set of guidelines designed for use by both the public and land managers across England and Wales. It is titled as a guide for enjoying parks and waterways, coast and countryside. It was established in 2004 as a relaunch of the The Country Code, which existed since the 1930s.
The Countryside Code is managed by Natural England in England and Natural Resources Wales in Wales. Whilst both organisations oversee the Countryside Code, they are each individually responsible for promoting it in their respective country.
The Country Code evolved from the work of various organisations and had several different versions from the 1930s. The most widely accepted version of The Country Code was published in 1981 by the Countryside Commission:
Enjoy the countryside and respect its life and work
Guard against all risk of fire
Fasten all gates
Keep your dogs under close control
Keep to public paths across farmland
Use gates and stiles to cross fences, hedges and walls
Leave livestock, crops and machinery alone
Take your litter home
Help to keep all water clean
Protect wildlife, plants and trees
Take special care on country roads
Make no unnecessary noise
In the 1960s and 70s the Country Code was publicised by several public information films shown in cinemas and on television.
At some point after 1981, the instruction to fasten all gates was replaced with one to instead leave gates as found
Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,UK,England,North West England,Warrington,Cheshire,crops,rotting,field,in a field,due to lack of,labourers,rot,agriculture,Brexit,UK farming,farms,How Brexit will Impact UK Farmers,UK Farmers,employment,productivity,Risks That Brexit Could Pose To Agriculture,Risks That Brexit Could Pose,Agriculture,No-deal Brexit,No deal Brexit,catastrophic for UK farmers,NFU,warn,warning,tariffs,WTO,rules,British food,food,UK food
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy RK9X6R - . A detailed visual record preserves the character of the recorded location, in this period view from 2019. The scene is specifically associated with Maize rotting in a field, due to lack of labourers and low paid workers. The scene also brings together service economy, hospitality employment, hospitality premises, local tourism, leisure venue, food-and-drink business, leisure hospitality, hospitality trade, tourist accommodation, catering trade, tourism economy, and customer service. For present-day editorial use, food service can also illustrate debates about delivery-platform competition and food and energy costs, particularly where these affect adaptable venues. Because this is a time-specific record of the recorded location, later comparison can reveal changes in signage, ownership, land use, transport, street furniture, building condition and the way the public uses the surrounding space, specifically in relation to Maize rotting in a field. The surrounding story includes restaurant sector, food culture, destination economy, local dining, food service, visitor destination. Associated details include temporary workers, EU immigrants, not picked, vegetables, low paid jobs, How Brexit Could Impact UK Farmers. In the mid-2020s, customer-facing businesses is increasingly discussed through commercial rents and food and energy costs, with attention turning to resilient local hospitality. The lasting documentary value lies in its record of physical infrastructure, signage and branding, community life, commercial identity, and local continuity within the surrounding area. For future comparison, the scene preserves movement through the area, everyday services, historic fabric, planning and redevelopment, and social change as part of the area's longer social history. The scene keeps a record of the surrounding streetscape for later comparison. Details around Maize rotting in a field strengthen its value as a dated record of the place.
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Keywords: grass,field,hay,bale,bales,autumn,monochrome,black,white,grappenhall,warrington,uk,cheshire,Grappenhall Village,England,village,A50,A56,365days,viullages,english,farm,farming,farms,sepia,B/W,mono,HDR,high dynamic range,Hotpicks,hotpics,hot,pics,pix,picks,hotpix.freeserve.co.uk,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3839976273 - 'Hay bales spotted on the way home. Polariser and sepia toned.
Another sepia scene here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4182533330/
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
