victoria atkins, the safeguarding minister. your views are welcome. contact me. but it's not everyone's cup of tea. and the met office have got two amber extreme heat warnings out for parts of the south—west of england, wales and northern ireland, too. across these zones and in fact elsewhere, there could be some health impacts because of the heat over the next few days, particularly for anybody vulnerable to extreme heat. so, lots of blue sky, lots of sunshine. a little bit cloudier on the far north—east, where temperatures will be around 20 celsius, in aberdeen, but up to about 29, 30, quite widely, we could see 31 in northern ireland. hit and miss heavy showers and thunderstorms almost anywhere into the evening hours, but they'll fade away overnight. temperatures staying pretty warm, in the mid to high teens, so an uncomfortable night for sleeping. into thursday, pretty similar to today. lots of blue sky, lots of sunshine around. cloudier across the north—east of the uk, but in that sunshine we are likely to see temperatures once again close to 30 degrees. bye

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