Sirens blared out unexpectedly on millions of mobile phones across the country at 7pm on Friday, warning the public against lighting anything that could cause a wildfire.

Over the last few years, there have been several incidents in which emergency alert systems have gone wrong.

In Great Missenden we were affixing the last details to our Friday Effigy when the alert came. It’s a new tradition we ...

There is a very high risk of wildfires,” read the message that appeared, once I’d fumbled the cacophonous phone out of my ...

Many complained online that piercingly loud tone was ‘overreach’ while others lamented lack of action on decarbonisation ...