Dozens of cannisters containing laughing gas or 'hippy crack' have been confiscated from young beachgoers as Brits flock to the coast this week for some reprieve from the 40C 'heat dome'.

The young boys were seen passing inflated balloons - which often contain nitrous oxide - to each other on the crowded beach, where hundreds were trying to cool off from the UK's…

Police said that nitrous oxide gives the user a 'brief high' which in turn ruins other people's beach experience