Stepping out of Scarborough train station into the warm sea air, Barbara Hunt and her husband, Maurice, felt immediately at home. It was their first visit to the Yorkshire coast, but the climate was similar to that in their native Sydney in summer.
The retirees, on a five-week visit to the UK, were rather perplexed by the country’s response to the heatwave. “It’s part of life in Australia but here it’s panic stations,” said Maurice, 79. “We find it a bit over the top really.”
