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Cruel Summer

Cruel Summer

Climate Change - Heat and Drought

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“Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning
I sit around…
Trying to smile but the air is so heavy and dry
It's too close for comfort, this heat has got right out of hand”

Bananarama - ‘Cruel Summer’ lyric, 1983

Do you remember the rather fabulous girls of Bananarama singing of a ‘Cruel Summer’ and topping the charts in 1983? Let me just remind you, th…

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