For millions of people trying to get home tonight after another blazing hot day - yet more stress, with the prospect of train delays and cancellations.

The UK is sweltering under a heatwave and the extreme weather is already causing chaos, bringing thunderstorms and flooding to London and the southwest, hundreds of school…

Most of us enjoy sunny weather but with rail lines buckling, schools closing and essential services failing, this is clearly no ordinary heatwave.

Record-breaking temperatures of 40C set for Britain on Wednesday

A high of 40C is forecast in the southeast of England on Friday

The 36. 9C record temperature was chalked in Wattisham, Suffolk, in southeast England, the meteorologists said, breaking the previous high of 36. 7C set on Thursday.