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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Kevin Rawlinson

UK has hottest day of the year, beating Thursday’s record

A woman uses a fan to cool herself in an underground train in London.
A woman uses a fan to cool herself in an underground train in London. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

UK temperatures have reached their highest point of the year, with 32.7C provisionally recorded at Heathrow, the Met Office said, beating the previous provisional high of 32.6C, recorded on Thursday.

The heatwave in England and Wales is the first time since records began that temperatures have been higher than 30C for six days in a row in September, according to the Met Office.

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