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Heat is on for fans at Glastonbury and Wimbledon

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another hits eastern and central America. A Dutch tourist aged 34 died from heatstroke on Mallorca while three people including a child hit by a tree were killed as rain, hail and floods battered France and Germany.

If the UK temperature rises above 33.2C it be the hottest day of the year, beating last Saturday in Charlwood, Surrey.

British tennis ace Emma Raducanu made sure she avoided London’s 28C peak yesterday by doing her pre-tournament practice on Wimbledon’s courts before the heat became unbearable.

Two hundred thousand festival goers at Glastonbury were warned tomorrow will be the festival’s hottest day, potentially peaking at 28C. Holly Willoughby was among VIPs keeping cool there yesterday.

Monday may turn out to be the hottest day of the year so far at 34C to 36C in London and towards Cambridgeshire, according to the Met Office.

The June all-time record is 35.6C, at Southampton’s Mayflower Park in 1976 and in Camden Square, North London in 1957.