In case you had yet to mark it in your diary, today is summer solstice: the longest day of the year with the sun rising in London at 04:43am and setting at 21:22pm.
Derived from the Latin solstitium meaning ‘sun standing still’, solstice refers to the briefly halting of the movement of the sun’s path north or south before changing direction (according to reports this moment will occur at 15:57pm).
