Met Office issues rain alert after UK enjoys heatwaveThe Met Office has issued a Yellow warning for rain this week, after the UK enjoyed scorching temperatures.
There are thunderstorms expected in much of England, Wales and Scotland, with risk of torrential downpours.
More widespread storms expected this week. Credit: Met OfficeMet Office lowers heat health warning for manyThe Met Office has lowered the heat health warning across much of England to a yellow level 2 warning, urging people to be "alert and ready".
Most of England has a heat health warning of yellow level 2. Credit: Met OfficeBoth Wales and the North East England regions have been issued the lower green level 1 warning.
Read more: Heat health warnings explainedHotting up and humid but turning thundery on Monday Read: Heatwave set to continueFour-week-old baby taken to hospital due to sunburn
A four-week-old boy is among ten children who have been admitted to hospital since the hot weather began.
Six of the ten patients, the oldest of which is 14 needed specialist treatment at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex, due to the severity of their sunburn.
No parent or carer intends for their child to get sunburnt and accidents do happen.
But spending just a couple of minutes applying sunscreen to a child before they go out in the sun is the difference between a summer of fun and a summer spoilt by sunburn.
The sun at this time of year is very strong and children can get burnt very quickly. The children we've treated over the last few weeks have been referred to our unit because their burns have been so severe they have required specialist treatment.
- Nora Nugent, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Queen Victoria Hospital'Another busy night' for fire crews amid heatwave
As wildfire warnings are issued across the country, it has been "another busy night" for fire crews:
Wales fire crews tackle grass fires and BBQ blazesFire crews in Mid and West Wales have been tackling blazes that include grass fires and a BBQ fire:
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