It's been a long time coming ....a heatwave is on its way!

IT'S the news we've all been longing to hear during a damp and dreary summer - a heatwave is finally coming

- Helen Barnett

Temperatures are set to soar to 30C over the next week in a welcome late blast of sunshine, forecasters said.

The remnants of Hurricane Franklin and a new jetstream will push high pressure over the UK today.

Experts said the mercury will rise as high as 25C in the South and South East this afternoon, before things get red hot next week just as children go back to school.

And it's highly possible temperatures could even rise into the low 30s on Monday and Wednesday in isolated areas of the South East, London and Hampshire, experts said.