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A record 50,000 people came out to watch the headline closing act, world-famous French DJ David Guetta, at the electronic dance music festival Beats for Love in Ostrava on Saturday night. More than 162,000 people attended the festival this year over the course of four days of programming, beating the previous record of 160,000 from 2022, the organisers said on Sunday. According to festival director Kamil Rudolf, they were helped by the fact that they were able to significantly increase capacity and sell more tickets for the festival's tenth anniversary this year.

Beats for Love touts itself as the biggest music festival in the Czech and Slovak Republics and the best electronic dance music festival in Central Europe.

A new cultural and leisure centre is set to open on the site of the former railway station Praha-Bubeneč in Prague 6. The former station building on the western edge of the popular Stromovka Park is being repurposed as a multifunctional space including a bistro, gallery, and hall where concerts, exhibitions, sports, debates and other community events can take place. The new centre, named Stanice 6 (Station 6), is due to open on 28 August, 10 years to the day since the last train stopped at the station.

The Prague 6 district, which manages the site, says this is the first time a railway station building in Prague has been permanently remodelled for a different use.

Temperature records for July 6 were broken at 11 out of 165 weather stations in Czechia on Saturday, mostly in Prague and Central Bohemia. The highest recorded temperature was 34.3 degrees Celsius in Prague's Libuš district.

Towards the evening the hot weather was replaced by heavy thunderstorms coming from the west, causing trees to fall on railway tracks and roads. In Prague's Braník district, a tree fell on two people during the storm, seriously injuring one of them, a 30-year-old man. The Prague fire service was called out to deal with 12 incidents relating to the weather.

Czech tennis player Barbora Krejčíková has advanced to the round of 16 at Wimbledon for the second time in her career. She won against Spain's Jessica Bouzas 6-0, 4-3 on Saturday after the Spaniard dropped out due to a back injury. Krejčíková will next play the American Danielle Collins on Monday for a place in the quarterfinals.

In the women's doubles, Krejčíková's former partner Kateřina Siniaková and the American Taylor Townsend beat France's Elixane Lechemia and the Australian Olivia Gadecki 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 in the second round on Saturday after resuming play. The match was suspended on Friday in the first set due to bad weather.