The record was broken when provisional temperatures reached 35.7C in Charlwood, Surrey, and 35.8C at Wiggonholt, West Sussex

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

The 50-year record was broken this afternoon in Charlwood, Surrey, when the mercury surpassed the 35.6C set in 1976.

A 69-year-old benchmark falls as temperatures surge across southern England

‘There are limits, and this is pushing it,’ one Londoner told The Independent

A temperature of 36.1C at Gosport in Hampshire was recorded on Wednesday

The UK's Met Office weather service said the record-breaking June temperature had been clocked in the village of Yeovilton, after Wednesday's high was reached further east in…