Tuesday saw the hottest day in May on record as temperatures reached 35.1C at Kew Gardens in London.

The death came in Hastings, East Sussex, after a 'medical incident' - while a 15-year-old boy drowned at Swanholme Lakes in Lincoln on Sunday.

The man, in his 60s, suffered a 'cardiac arrest in the sea' after heroically trying to help two relatives at Tregirls Beach, near Padstow, at around 3.50pm yesterday.

Four teenagers, three boys and a girl, have died in ‘water-related incidents’

Police and fire crews were called to Galley Hill Road on Wednesday afternoon