British holidaymakers have described fleeing “horrific” French wildfires with flames towering several stories high as they drove down the only escape route from a popular tourist resort. Evacuees from the Cap Ferret peninsula were forced to flee with their children as they drove past walls of flames down the road linking to the mainland. It comes as a new 40°C heatwave threatened to compound firefighters’ efforts to control unprecedented blazes that have raged for days Firefighters in France and Spain are battling infernos fuelled by record-breaking heat, with around 300,00 people displaced in one of the continent’s biggest evacuations since […]