It's hotting up in the UK with experts predicting we could see the hottest ever day on record this week. And it was a similar story 50 years ago as temperatures soared during the summer of '76

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Soaring temperatures should be seen as a public health threat, expert warns as temperatures expected to smash records set in June 1976 by several degrees

The record for the hottest June temperature of 35.6C was set in 1976 in Southampton