Evening briefing Thursday 13th August

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0:44One passenger described feeling the carriage rocking before it jumped and the emergency brakes came on, throwing people forward. Emergency services are at the scene. Lewis MP James McCleary says it looks as if no one's been seriously hurt. Sounds mercifully like the injuries are relatively light, which is incredible when you see the scenes, which look really quite shocking. but I suspect the train was going pretty slowly at that point coming into Lewis, so that may well have helped avoid more serious injuries. The UK has recorded its hottest day of the year, with temperatures provisionally reaching 38.1 degrees Celsius at Kew Gardens in London.

1:20The Met Office says that makes today the fifth hottest day ever recorded in the UK. An amber warning for extreme heat remains in force across parts of England until midnight. Meanwhile, nurses are collapsing at work whilst working in conditions that aren't fit for humans. That's according to the Royal College of Nursing, who says poor ventilation and no air conditioning in most hospitals led to poor health of workers amid the heatwave. Patricia Marquis is the Executive Director for England. We've had members telling us they've been so severely dehydrated, they've actually been admitted to hospital, that really aren't the sort of situation that we should expect our staff to work in and not the sort of situation our patients should be being cared in.

2:05Around 60 firefighters are tackling a major blaze near Stourbridge Golf Course in the West Midlands with some homes evacuated as a precaution. A separate major incident has been declared over a large fire at Salford Priors in Warwickshire with residents told to keep doors and windows closed. More than a quarter of students getting their A-level results were awarded an A or A-star grade this year. That's up marginally from last year. Meanwhile, boys once again outperformed girls in terms of top grades again. These pupils got their marks this morning. I got three A's. A star, A B. UCAS says a record number of 18-year-olds has secured a place at their first choice of university.

2:46Professor Peter Sleeve, Vice-Chancellor at Leeds Beckett University, says whether you got the grades or not, take this advice. When you take this kind of decision about what you're going to do with the next stage of your career, If you think hard about making the right decision, don't just jump into the first thing that comes along. A 102-year-old man with dementia has died days after he was allegedly pushed off a stage in his local pub. Great-grandfather Philip Ormerod went to make a complaint about noise at the crow's nest in Cumbrian at the start of the month. A 56-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault and remains under investigation.

3:22And Google searches for eclipse glasses and calendars surged by more than 5 ,000 % around last night's solar eclipse, while searches for eye pain peaked just after maximum obscurity. Eye experts are warning people to watch for blurred vision, dark spots or increased sensitivity to light after looking directly at the sun. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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