Travellers urged to check passports as warning issued for Spain, Portugal and Greece

You could be turned away if your passport doesn't meet the requirements

Brussels is managing resource reallocations across 37 participating nations, deploying planes, helicopters, and ground units to France and Spain. Officials warn that intensifying heatwaves could soon spread major blazes into Italy, Greece, and Portugal.

Scots heading abroad are being urged to make two essential passport checks before heading abroad

Authorities fear progress in containing the fires in the Gironde and Madrid regions may be set back by temperatures expected to hit the low 40s France and Spain are braced for the fourth heatwave of the summer to hit just as they were making progress battling destructive wildfires, with temperatures once again expected

Brits have been urged to make two essential passport checks before heading abroad this summer as data shows more than one million UK passports could fail entry requirements

Greece has introduced the measures as soaring temperatures spark wildfires in southwestern Europe.

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