UK heatwave - in pictures

Friday 03 July 2015 15:32 BST

People cool off in a fountain outside the Southbank Centre (Getty)

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The UK is experiencing something of a heat wave with the capital hotter than Mumbai, Johannesburg and parts of the Bahamas.

Temperatures on the first day of July climbed to 36.7C at Heathrow in London – the hottest day in almost a decade – as throughout the UK Britons try and enjoy the sun.