The UK’s record temperature has been broken amid an exceptional heatwave that has caused chaos and wildfires around the country.
The temperature on Tuesday exceeded 40C in the UK for the first time on record, with 40.2C reported at Heathrow at 12.50pm. It was then surpassed by a record 40.3C recorded in Coningsby, Lincolnshire a few hours later – beating the previous extreme of 38.7°C in Cambridge in 2019.
