{"id":28063,"date":"2026-08-12T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=28063"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:18:20","slug":"burnham-urges-retailers-to-stop-selling-disposable-barbecues-after-emergency-cobra-meeting-uk-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=28063","title":{"rendered":"Burnham urges retailers to stop selling disposable barbecues after emergency Cobra meeting \u2013 UK politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Andy Burnham has urged \u201call retailers big and small\u201d to withdraw the sale of disposable barbecues in order to prevent more wildfires this summer, as he warned extreme heat conditions \u201ccould be with us for some weeks yet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after chairing a meeting of the Government\u2019s emergency Cobra committee in response to the prolonged spell of exceptionally hot and dry weather.<\/p>\n<p>Most major UK supermarkets have suspended sales of disposable barbecues in recent weeks in line with voluntary guidance from the NFCC.<\/p>\n<p>England and Wales have already seen as many wildfires this year as in the whole of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Some 1,017 wildfires have been recorded in England and Wales this year, according to data shared by the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), the same as last year\u2019s record-breaking total.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/aug\/12\/andy-burnham-early-prisoner-release-cobra-meeting-heatwave-climate-crisis-labour-conservatives-reform-latest-news-updates' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Andy Burnham has urged \u201call retailers big and small\u201d to withdraw the sale of disposable barbecues in order to prevent more wildfires this summer, as he warned extreme heat conditions \u201ccould be with us for some weeks yet\u201d. His comments came after chairing a meeting of the Government\u2019s emergency Cobra committee in response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}