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2003 summer hottest in 500 years

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Thousands of deaths were blamed on the heatwave. Photo: Glogster

European researchers say last summer was the hottest on the continent for at least five centuries. "When you consider Europe as a whole, it was by far the hottest," said Juerg Luterbacher of the University of Bern, Switzerland.

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