Forget the football, it's going to be a scorcher! Britain braces for hottest day of year as...

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Queues and traffic build near Pilton, Somerset, as Glastonbury Festival opens its gates. Music lovers are eager to see headliners Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and SZA perform on the Pyramid Stage, marking the start of the highly anticipated event.

Temperatures are set to hit scorching 31C peaks in parts of the UK today as thousands of festival-goers descend upon Glastonbury.

That made it hotter than Torremolinos on the Spain's Costa Blanca where temperatures reached 29C or Kos in Greece with the same temperature.Britons are enjoying the warm temperatures with a swim at Charlton Lido this morningEmily Eavis opens the gates on the first day of the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset

Elsewhere, others have been pictured enjoying morning swims at Charlton Lido in London and Eastbourne. Meanwhile, NHS bosses said the current heatwave has already put strain on the service and that a junior doctors' strike taking place tomorrow would make the situation worse. NHS England's national medical director, Professor Sir Stephen Powis, said: 'This new round of strike action will again hit the NHS very hard, with almost all routine care likely to be affected, and services put under significant pressure.

'GP services and pharmacies are also available for patients and can be accessed in the normal way, and patients who haven't been contacted or informed that their planned appointment has been postponed are also urged to attend as normal.' Read More England fans set to pack out pubs amid 31C heatwave after bosses were told to brace for sickies 'It comes and tells us what the situation is, and we say 'fair, you need two people to go back.'A swimmer's body was recovered off Bournemouth on Monday, while a woman in her 80s plunged 70ft to her death in a quarry at Winspit, in Dorset, on Saturday.

 

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