Times (UK): Taxpayers will have to pick up a bill of hundreds of billions of pounds to pay for the damage caused to services by heatwaves brought on by climate change. Heatwaves are forecast to increase in both frequency and intensity over the next 90 years and will put services under intense pressure. By 2080s heatwaves as severe as that of 2003, when thousands of people across Europe were killed, could be commonplace. A researcher has now identified some of the financial costs to …