COOL: Ethan Partington, aged three, cools down by the fountain in Queens Park in the Sunday sunshine
IT was balmy in Bolton this weekend and the heat is likely to continue into this week.
A Met Office spokesman said: “Temperatures will remain pretty hot. We could see some wet weather coming across the North West, but still pretty hot.” Temperatures are forecast to dip to the low 20s with showers towards the end of the week. But holidaymakers heading to Spain and Portugal were warned of an extreme heatwave which could see the hottest-ever temperatures recorded in continental Europe.
The Met Office said the current record of 48C (118F) in Athens, Greece, in 1977 could be broken as wave of blisteringly hot air sweeps in from Africa.
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