By Emine Sinmaz, Jennifer Smith and Mark Duell PUBLISHED: 06:50 EST, 26 August 2013 | UPDATED: 15:49 EST, 27 August 2013 If you wanted to wander lonely as a cloud yesterday, this was definitely not the place to be. For as the sun finally came out at the end of a drizzly bank holiday weekend, hundreds of climbers made a scramble for the summit of Snowdon. Queues snaked all the way down the 3,560ft mountain as hordes of hikers waited patiently to reach its peak. Fighting for the best spot: Hikers clamber to the peak of Snowdon in Snowdonia, Wales, yesterday to get the best sunbathing spot
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Temperatures soar to 26C in parts of the South East, while the rest of England and Wales enjoys highs of 24C
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After a weekend of heavy showers and flash floods in areas of Britain, good weather is now set to last all week
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Survival of the fittest: Hundreds of hikers headed for the hills yesterday and climbed to the top of @placeholder's tallest mountain to soak up the sun