A new study has now found that more than half - 56% - of the heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022 were related to human-induced climate change. According to the research, 38,154 of the 68,593 heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022 would not have occurred without anthropogenic warming.

AN EXPERT on missing persons and unidentified human remains is hoping her research can help bring about a change in the law.

Work carried out by Emma Tilley, who is completing her PhD in Criminology and Policing at University of Staffordshire, is included in a Law Commission public consultation on burial and cremation.

Emma, who has starred in Locate International’s Channel 4 documentary series The Body Detectives, has been critically reviewing the cross-matching of unidentified human remains and missing persons reports in England and Wales.

She has identified that there are currently around 800 unsolved cases involving unidentified bodies or body parts. She has also revealed that while 27 per cent of local authorities typically bury the bodies or remains of unidentified people, around a third are likely to cremate them as part of their duties under the Public Health Act 1984.