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Britain has recorded its hottest day of the year for the third consecutive day as temperatures close in on 90F (32C), causing bridges to swell and railway lines to buckle. Gritters and emergency 'action teams' have been put on standby by transport bosses today amid fears that motorways and main roads will melt. The heat has been so intense (sunseekers in Bournemouth, left) that the record for the year was smashed as early as 11am this morning, with 30.8C registered in Portmadog in Wales. The sweltering conditions even caused Barton Swing Bridge in Salford, Lancashire (top and bottom right) to expand, forcing firemen to douse the expanded metal frame in cold water for half an hour to get it to return to normal. It comes as it was revealed a 17-year-old swimmer became the third person to die in open water yesterday, after the teenager got into difficulty in the River Aire in Leeds.

The British Army has been called in to help firefighters battle 20ft flames on Saddleworth Moor as the blaze rages on for the fourth day amid a blazing heatwave in the UK. The smoke engulfing homes has been described as dangerous with health officials forcing families to wear dust masks (shown main) and to stay indoors. The inferno has raged across four miles of the Pennines beauty spot (pictured bottom row) near Greater Manchester, decimating the moorlands in its wake. A major incident was declared this morning as the blaze worsened, with 34 homes evacuated. A public health warning has now been issued about pollution in the air. The task now facing crews is frequently shifting as changes in wind directions create fresh problem areas amid the ongoing heatwave, with temperatures reaching around 94F (33C) in the sun.

A mother who claims her five-year-old was abducted from a hotel kids' club is suing the travel agent Thomas Cook. Janet Alexander claims her daughter Rose was taken by a stranger during a family holiday to Turkey (pictured, left, Janet with Rosie, centre, and sister Lois). The senior charge nurse from Inverness says her youngest daughter (pictured, right, on holiday) was taken while at a supervised kids club at the Royal Wings Hotel in Antalya.

The Duke of Cambridge was today accompanied by an extraordinary security detail (top) as he went for a walkabout around Ramallah, following a historic meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Scores of security guards accompanied the 36-year-old prince as he was shown around Ramallah and looked at the local landmarks, one day after Israel's president urged him to take a 'message of peace' to the Arab leader. William sat down for talks with Mr Abbas (bottom left) in Ramallah after their historic handshake, becoming the first member of the royal family to visit the Palestinian Occupied Territories at the request of the Government. The 36-year-old royal also met girls at a school at the Jalazone camp run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (bottom centre and right).

Taleedah Tamer, 18, from Jeddah has landed her first international magazine cover on the front of the July/August issue of Harper's Bazaar Arabia and will make her modelling debut at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week this summer. Born to an Italian model mother and a Saudi businessman, she says it's the perfect time for the Saudi fashion industry to open up.

Meghan attended the Young Leaders Reception at Buckingham Palace alongside Prince Harry on Tuesday night where the newly-minted Duchess was accused of a royal faux pas. The couple took their seats next to the Queen at the event where the newly-minted Duchess had her apparent 'slip-up' - but can YOU spot it.

People from around the world contributed hilarious Snapchat posts of their dogs behaving in unexpected ways to a gallery shared on Bored Panda. Many people were surprised by how their canines interacted with other animals and even took on the traits of some creatures. Pictured clockwise from top left: A dog weightlifting its companion, a canine impersonating a squirrel, a husky surrounded by kittens, a puppy who befriended a brick, a pair of brothers and a man trolled for his hairy animal.

A Chinese court yesterday sentenced two drug dealers to death in front of hundreds of people. The two criminals received the verdict on a sports ground in Haikou, southern China's Hainan Province, before being put to execution immediately. Many of the spectators were young students who were organised to watch the public sentencing rally wearing school uniforms, according local media.

Love Island star Sophie Gradon's parents have said their 'hearts are broken' following her death aged 32. The reality star, who appeared in the 2016 series of the ITV2 dating show, was found dead in Ponteland, Northumberland, last Wednesday. Her parents, Colin and Deborah Gradon, said in a statement to the Press Association: 'It has been one week since we lost our precious daughter and we as a family are still coming to terms with our sudden loss. Our hearts are broken.

Amelia Brooke Harris (right) was discovered by police on the wooden table in the garden of her family home in Trealaw in the Rhondda, South Wales (inset). A forensic pathologist said a post mortem examination was yet to conclude how Amelia had died and had ordered further tests. Her mother Carly Ann Harris, 37, (left) is due to appear at Cardiff Crown Court in August 13 charged with her daughter's murder.

The Argentinian was seen dancing, unveiling a banner of himself and then appearing to fall asleep as he sat in the stands during his country's clash against Nigeria in Saint Petersburg. When Argentina secured a 2-1 victory with a dramatic late winner, cameras focussed on the 57-year-old as he agave the middle finger (inset) to fans below his VIP area. Reports claimed he had been rushed to hospital but he later denied this in an Instagram post (left). Social media users have highlighted what they claimed was a suspicious-looking white residue (circled, right) smudged on the glass barrier in front of him - but it could just as easily have been harmless stains or fingerprints or on the surface. In a WhatsApp recording sent to Argentinian journalists, the World Cup winner later blamed white wine for his behaviour.

A former glamour model and a beauty queen are among the Belgian plus-ones who will be cheering from the stands when the team takes on England in Kaliningrad on Thursday. Pictured: Former Miss Belgium Noemi Happart, wife of Yannick Carrasco; Rafaella Witsel, wife of Alex (right, right image); Deborah Panzokou, partner of Paris Saint-Germain defender Thomas Meunier with their children (inset top); British TV star Polly Vermaelen, wife of Thomas (inset bottom).

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Police, who said that at least 30 shots were fired at the five family members in Buenos Aires, Argentina, believe it was a revenge attack connected to drug trafficking. The 18-month-old baby boy, whose name has not been released, was rushed by ambulance to the city's Hospital Santamarina of Monte Grande for treatment to an arm injury and is out of danger.

Pensioners, farmers, teachers and pub landlords in Michaelston y Fedw, clubbed together after being unable to download films, stream music or connect to online banking. Homeowners in the area between Cardiff and Newport put in thousands of hours of volunteering digging more than seven miles (12km) of trenches to install their own cables. The village, which has a population of just 300, now has one of the fastest internet speeds available at a thousand times quicker than before.

Akilah and her mother Opal appeared on Channel 4's The Posh Frock Shop set at Ian Stuart's London store, where the bride-to-be broke down in tears over her mother's verdict on her dress. Akilah was delighted with the strapless lace gown she'd chosen, but Opal was very vocal about the fact she didn't like it and her daughter had to be led back to the changing room to be comforted.

Footage shows the man clad in tracksuit bottoms and holding a rack of sunglasses, which vendors often carry on the Spanish party island. He is also wearing a purple monkey toy around his neck and a multicoloured umbrella hat. As groups of young men laugh and chant 'looky looky' at the man's controversial attire, an actual sunglasses vendor is called over. Smiling, he poses with the joker as revellers photograph the pair. But the man's getup has sparked a furious backlash online, with some calling him out as racist for the black face paint.

Students Jamie Raines and Shaaba Lotun, both 23, from Colchester, Essex, met at the age of 16 when they were both schoolgirls and have been inseparable ever since, and appeared on Bride & Prejudice last night. However, Shaaba is from a strict Muslim family and her mother Fai expected her to marry a man from within their Mauritian community. According to Fai, Jamie - a transgender blogger who has identified with being male since he was four and who documented his journey on YouTube - didn't fit the bill. Viewers took to social media to vent their anger after watching the Channel 4 show as as Fai struggled to accept Jamie, who came out as transgender when he was 17, as a man, claiming she had 'lost' her daughter because of the impending marriage.

David Beckham lookalike Andy Harmer (seen right) was mocked on Twitter by This Morning viewers during his appearance on the ITV daytime show to discuss the second series of Channel 4's Lookalikes. Viewers were unconvinced by his resemblance to the football hero (seen left), with one tweeting: 'If he's David Beckham, I'm Posh!'

Former world No 1 golfer Luke Donald has put his Illinois mansion on the market for $4.5million (£3.4m). Donald and his wife Diane have owned the property in Northfield, Illinois, since 2008, when they purchased the six-bedroom home for $3.75m (£2.83m). While the couple have lived in the home, on and off, for 10 years, Donald still clearly has significant pride about his home country. His office has a large Union Jack carpet.

Rhian Allan (left), who's from Wales but now lives in Sydney, slashes her grocery bill by buying own-brand products and saves time by meal prepping everything in advance. She now shares her £36 weeknight meal plan, which creates enough food to feed four a different dish every night for five days. Dishes include a ratatouille lasagne (top right) and jalapeno chicken poppers (bottom right). The mother-of-two, who is the founder of hugely popular weight loss programme The Healthy Mummy which has just launched in the UK for the first time, says she wants to show busy mothers how healthy eating doesn't have to be expensive.

The men, who appear made up like Pennywise the Dancing Clown from Stephen King's horror book It, are pictured taking part in 'dark harlequin-style' ritual in the suburbs of Prague, Czech Republic. Local photographer David Tesinsky, who was invited to the ceremony, said: 'This group practice Satanism because it makes their lives happy and successful. It was a very spiritual experience for them and they compare it to any other faith such as Christianity or Buddhism.'

This jaw-dropping private Caribbean island with a mammoth £65 million price tag has hit the market in an area so renowned for its beauty that it has featured in Pirates of the Caribbean and James Bond movies. Little Pipe Cay, in the central Bahamas, is described as 'a jewel' within the archipelago of the Exuma island chain. Johnny Depp, Oprah and Faith Hill all have islands nearby, while the world famous swimming pigs of Exuma attract thousands of tourist each year.

Fleetwood Mac star Christine McVie (inset) has put her luxury London apartment on the market with a £3.6 million price tag. The singer-songwriter bought the property beside the River Thames in Battersea in 1992, to use as her base in the capital. The 74-year-old, who penned the hit Songbird, one of Fleetwood Mac's best-known tracks, redesigned and fully refurbished the apartment last year. She said that the fifth-floor flat which boasts three double bedrooms (top), two en-suite bathrooms and large open-plan reception room (bottom right), was 'especially captivating at night-time'.

Drivers in Turkey are bracing for heavy summer storms that last year damaged hundreds of thousands of cars and left insurance agencies reeling. Last July, torrential rainfall and hail battered the capital of Istanbul and swamped insurance agencies with around 150,000 claims. This summer, agencies are warning drivers to park in garages in order to avoid damage and some drivers are taking no chances.

Dozens of the birds keep landing on the windowsills of the four-storey building in Wandsworth, south west London - which is split into four flats - and residents say the pigeons keep managing to find ways into the block. The situation has become so bad that a sign has been affixed to the communal notice board warning the tenants not to open the windows (right). Pictures and videos show bewildered tenants battling to keep the persistent pigeons out of their homes. They have even been spotted on their hobs (left).

Maya Clanton, a graphic designer from North Carolina, was filmed by her friend Nakeya as she was driven home from hospital. Maya had been given nitrous oxide ('laughing gas') to ease the pain during the operation, which would have lasted around 45 minutes. At one point she exclaimed she couldn't blink because they 'hit a nerve in my eye!'.

The video shows the woman pull apart the electric doors at the supermarket, before leaving with a bottle of champagne and another full of cider in her bag. Shocked shoppers said she was attempting to steal the drinks. However, after making it out onto the pavement, she comes back in for a fight. After repeatedly shouting, 'Do you think you're smart?' at the female staff, she returns to the aisles and tries to pull a bottle of booze from the worker's arms. The woman and two shop assistants grapple in the aisle, with stock being knocked over in the shop in Croydon, south London, on Saturday.

BT called in experts when a customer complained that the new dark green ruined the look of his picturesque 16th century home in Stanstead near Long Melford, Suffolk. The firm painted the green cabinet to blend in with the flint wall of the former village pub - rendering it near invisible. Ervin Xhafa was shocked to find that BT had put up the 120cm high by 120cm wide box right in front of his Grade Two listed house. The communications giant did not need to get permission from Mr Xhafa - or the local council - to put up the cabinet.

Sophie Mayanne, from London, has captured hundreds of people's scars in an ongoing project aimed at helping them to 'embrace their bodies' and has shared her latest images with MailOnline - including (L-R) one-year-old Faith, who underwent open-heart surgery, Katya, who was left with 30 per cent burns after a nightclub explosion, and Abigail, who was left with a prominent scar down her right leg after a serious accident when she was 13.