The Met Office has extended its amber heatwave warning to more of Scotland for Monday and Tuesday with temperatures in the high 20s and low 30s expected across the eastern edge of the country.
Forecasters had anticipated extreme weather conditions in the Borders at the start of next week and had previously warned that the uncomfortable conditions may creep across the country. The Met Office has now upgraded the warning to cover huge swathes of the central belt and the east of Scotland including Lanarkshire, the Lothians, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Perth and Dundee.
The warning is in place from the start of Monday until the end of Tuesday - with meteorologists warning of "widespread impacts on people and infrastructure". Temperatures will peak at 30C on Tuesday across eastern Scotland, while some areas of Tayside and Fife will see the mercury hit 27C.
