France has temporarily relaxed rules for making some of its best-known cheeses after the summer drought drastically reduced the amount of grass available to feed milk herds.

Property owners with spare land are being partnered up."It works within the nature friendly, regenerative sector and to support new entrants into starting new farming enterprises."

Somerset's famous cider orchards have been "decimated" by the long summer drought, producers say. Many trees have produced no fruit at all, and others have dropped their fruit early, rotting before they ripened.