Today the UK has seen its warmest day on record as temperatures rose above 40C for the first time. The previous maximum temperature recorded was 38.7C at the Botanic Garden in Cambridge in July 2019.
That outstripped the 38.5C seen in Faversham, Kent, in August 2003. But on Tuesday, Cambridge's record was smashed at Coningsby in Lincolnshire and 33 other locations across England. Five other places levelled the Cambridge record.
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