Thursday’s amber extreme heat warning from the Met Office covered a huge area of central England, stretching from London to Sheffield. The temperature at Kew reached 38.1 degrees Celsius, making it the hottest day of the year so far.

The UK is on course to have its warmest summer on record for mean temperature, with only average conditions needed for the remainder of August to surpass the record set only last…

The Met Office has issued rare amber "extreme heat" warnings for parts of the UK as the country faces a fifth heatwave of the summer amid a wildfire emergency warnings