内容摘要：The star won the contest for Switzerland in 1988, and it had been rumoured she would take the stage as the ceremony returns to the country this year.

The star won the contest for Switzerland in 1988, and it had been rumoured she would take the stage as the ceremony returns to the country this year.

"This followed quite a wet autumn and winter, which can have the effect of increasing the vegetation that acts as fuel for any fire that does start."A lack of rainfall in March and April can be particularly conducive to fires.

"The vegetation is coming out of the winter and it has gone dormant, so it's not growing, and therefore it's very dry and doesn't have water," explained Guillermo Rein, professor of fire science at Imperial College London."Then in the spring, before you start to collect the water into the live tissue, there is a period where it's very flammable."The seven days from 2 to 8 April saw more than 18,000 hectares (180 sq km) burnt, the highest weekly figure on record.

The BBC has also analysed satellite images to illustrate two of the biggest burns this year., in south-west Scotland, an estimated 65 sq km burnt, nearly a quarter of the UK total.

A fire in mid-Wales, about 25 km (16 miles) from Aberystwyth, also burnt a large area of roughly 50 sq km.

Fires have also been detected by satellite imagery on the Isle of Arran, the Isle of Bute and the Isle of Skye in Scotland, as well as in the Mourne Mountains in south-east Northern Ireland. All occurred in early April.In her Financial Times interview last week, Kouoh challenged the idea that death would bring an end to her endeavours.

"I do believe in life after death, because I come from an ancestral black education where we believe in parallel lives and realities," she said."There is no 'after death', 'before death' or 'during life'. It doesn't matter that much. I believe in energies - living or dead - and in cosmic strength."

An unregulated sperm donor, who claims to have fathered more than 180 children around the world, has been denied increased parental rights for a child he fathered as a donor through natural insemination.Robert Albon, who posted sperm samples packaged with frozen tomato puree to keep them cold, sought parental control and contact with the girl, born in 2023.