Brits deemed it too hot to shop last month as soaring temperatures led to shopper footfall tumbling.

Total UK footfall was down 2.1% year-on-year in July amid soaring temperatures, figures suggest.

Total UK footfall was down 2.1% on a year earlier, but an improvement on the 3.4% drop seen in June, according to British Retail Consortium (BRC)-Sensormatic data