Temperatures are set to soar across the UK this week and in Nottinghamshire the mercury will hit 30C on Friday. But not everyone is celebrating by planning a BBQ and filling up the paddling pool in the weather.
Football pundit and TV star Gary Lineker has taken to Twitter to remind followers that unusually high temperatures are no cause for celebration. The former England striker who now fronts Match of the Day on the BBC and BT Sport's UEFA Champions League coverage goes onto infers that ignoring the problem will ultimately have disastrous consequences.
In the tweet, which at the time of writing had attracted almost 17,000 likes since being posted at 9.07am today (June 16), Gary states: "Another heatwave over Europe and elsewhere. Records broken year on year. We’re like a cancer patient who knows there’s a tumour, but prefers to ignore it and hopes it goes away, even though it gets larger everyday #DontLookUp."
