Olivia Christie

Temperatures did not drop below 21.3C overnight at Kenley Airfield, south London, making it a 'tropical night', the Met Office said.

Patches of countryside in West Sussex, Kent and Lincolnshire were the latest areas to be targeted by unscrupulous developers over the three-day break - much to the dismay of locals.

Tuesday is the hottest day in May on record as temperatures have provisionally reached 35C at Heathrow and Kew Gardens in London, the Met Office said.

South West Railway (SWR) told the Daily Mail disruption on its network was due to 'the very high temperatures' as a record May high of 35.1C was recorded in London's Kew Gardens on Tuesday.

The energy price cap governs the price of energy for the two thirds of Britons who are not on fixed-term contracts.

Rizwan Manjra was convicted in December 2024 of securing unauthorised access to personal information on his work computer systems for his own financial gain.

The suspect, who was masked and dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, also smashed the windows and lights of the convertible with a hammer he had pulled from his rucksack.

Tom Meighan is due to perform at The Half Moon in Putney, south-west London , on June 26 to a sold-out crowd.

Emergency services raced to the scene on the A30 in Cornwall shortly before 11am on Friday.

Steve and Kim Benstock from Essex made fake claims to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) but failed to declare their significant earnings to HMRC .