Siestas could become a sensible survival method

Siestas could become a normal part of life for Britons as summers get hotter, a leading scientist has predicted.

According to Professor Bill Keatinge, an authority on the health hazards of heat, siestas might be life savers in the future if current predictions of warming trends are correct.

Scientists think heatwaves as extreme as the one which killed 14,000 people in France in August 2003 are likely to be commonplace in the coming decades. Towards the latter half of the century, every other summer in the UK could be as hot as 2003.

The Independent