Photographs from the day when high temperatures are forecast across the UK, with London set to be one of the hottest places in the world.
IMAGE SOURCE,BEN STEVENS/PINPENImage caption,A newborn Bolivian squirrel monkey keeps cool at Chessington Zoo, in Surrey.
IMAGE SOURCE,DOMINIC LIPINSKI / PAImage caption,At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in south-west London, horticulture student Muhammed Ismail Moosa waters the plants in the Palm House.
IMAGE SOURCE,TOM WREN / SWNSImage caption,Paddleboarders make the most of the cooler morning, in Bristol.
IMAGE SOURCE,JOHN SIBLEY / REUTERSImage caption,Police horse Zorro drinks water from a bucket on Whitehall, in central London.
IMAGE SOURCE,KATIELEE ARROWSMITH / SWNSImage caption,Joanne Dunwell and her eight-month-old daughter stay cool in the ponds in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh.
IMAGE SOURCE,JOHN SIBLEY / REUTERSImage caption,A soldier of the Queen’s Guard is given drinking water outside Buckingham Palace, in central London.
IMAGE SOURCE,STEVE PARSONS / PAImage caption,A woman keeps cool by dipping her feet in the River Thames near Chertsey, in Surrey.
IMAGE SOURCE,MARTIN DALTON/REX/SHUTTERSTOCKImage caption,Visitors to Cambridge take to the River Cam.
IMAGE SOURCE,LIAM MCBURNEY/PA WIREImage caption,Jasmine Bowers with her daughter, who is eating a lollipop outside their home in north Belfast.
IMAGE SOURCE,LEON NEAL / GETTY IMAGESImage caption,Assistant horticulturist Katie Martyr checks the readings for the previous 24 hours on Monday morning at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, which previously recorded the UK’s highest temperature of 38.7C (101F ) in July 2019.
IMAGE SOURCE,LEON NEAL / GETTY IMAGESImage caption,Elsewhere at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, beekeepers check on the beehives. They add extra water pots and place cardboard on top of the hives to help mitigate the impact of extreme heat.
IMAGE SOURCE,TOM NICHOLSON / REUTERSImage caption,People swim in the tidal pool at Perranporth Beach in Cornwall.
IMAGE SOURCE,AARON CHOWN / PAImage caption,A woman keeps cool beside a water sprinkler outside Queen Elizabeth II Centre in central London.
IMAGE SOURCE,ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFEImage caption,People sit in a children’s paddling pool which was filled by a council parks vehicle in central London.
IMAGE SOURCE,DOMINIC LIPINSKI/PAImage caption,A man walks in the sun in Greenwich Park on what is already the hottest day of the year across the UK.
Image caption,A country path in Dunsden, Oxfordshire, is dry and cracked because of the lack of rain in the recent hot spell.
