Deep Heat... Then Roll In Thunder

Beaches busy but storms loom

- Louie Smith

Britain basked in the year’s highest temperatures yesterday with the mercury set to rise even further tomorrow.

Beaches and parks were packed with sunseekers as a peak of 29.7C was recorded in Teddington, West London.

But the Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning until 6am on Friday for thunderstorms in most of England and half of Wales.

Forecasters predict 30C could be reached in the South tomorrow.

Sunseekers hit the beach at Bournemouth, Dorset, where Lucimora Goiania from Brazil enjoyed a dip in the sea, and people in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warks, tried to cool down with a row on the river.

In Southend, Essex, where a big clear-up began yesterday, deckchairs flew as around 10 men fought with horrified families looking on.