People use parasols to protect themselves from the sun as they queue outside a shop in London on June 26, 2026.
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The United Kingdom broke the record for a June temperature for the third day in a row on Friday (June 26, 2026), the Met Office weather agency said, as a sweltering heatwave strained schools and hospitals and drove down business.A provisional 37.3 C record temperature was chalked up in Santon Downham, a village in Suffolk, in southeast England, the Met Office told AFP, breaking the previous high of 36.9°C set earlier Friday (June 26, 2026).
A man drinks from a water bottle after loading up his fruit and vegetable stall, which has been in his family for 105 years, at North End Road Market in Fulham, London, on June 26, 2026.
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