Britain records highest ever temperature

The highest-ever temperature in Britain has been recorded, weather forecasters said.

A temperature of 37.4C (99.3F) was recorded at Heathrow around 1.30pm, the London Weather Centre said.

This breaks the previous record temperature, recorded at Cheltenham in August 1990.

A weather observer at Heathrow took the record temperature reading and telephoned the Met Office.

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