England’s Commonwealth Games anthem is Jerusalem but foreign visitors to the sporting festival in Birmingham would be forgiven for questioning the hymn’s claim that it is a green and pleasant land.
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The fairways at the Links Golf Club in Newmarket took on a scorched look, although at least the greens lived up to their name.
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Firefighters were deployed in Ashford to deal with the consequences of the weather on the tinder-dry countryside.
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