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  1. Temperatures reached 35.1C in Kew Gardens on Tuesday - but are set to dip to as low as 11C next week

  2. Premier League winners aiming for first European Cup triumph against holders in Budapest

  3. It’s hotting up on Jersey’s St Brelade’s Bay, and I’m not just talking about the sunshine. I’m sitting in a sauna cabin on the sands and, as the temperature gauge rises, the bracing waves of the English Channel — spotted through an artfully-placed window — are looking very tempting. After 15 minutes of sweating, it’s time to test the hot-cold therapy with a dash down to the shoreline. A dunk in the sea invites goosebumps to dance across my skin and, then, it’s back to the cabin for the process to be repeated all over again.

  4. The winger, currently at Dutch side Feyenoord, was pulled over by police in Hampshire at around 9am on Thursday

  5. “It feels like we’ve gone back in time!” my friend shouts in my ear over the blaring techno remix. Instead of our usual stomping grounds of Hackney, Peckham or Tottenham, we’re spending our Saturday night in — god forbid — a postcode that starts with WC. Specifically, we are standing in what used to be the Odeon cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue, which for the past six months has been transformed into a nightclub called Lost.

  6. Boroughs which fell into no over control are now deciding who should lead them

  7. Death threats, intimidation and surveillance — how Tehran-linked plots have turned the capital from a city of refuge into one of fear

  8. Read what the stars mean for you today, from Taurus to Aries

  9. Gunners aiming for a famous double with Champions League final coming up

  10. Charity football match returns for a special anniversary this weekend