article_snippet.sent: the country is still basking in bright sunshine, pictured people in Portsmouth catch rays on the beach as temperatures soar at the historic Hot Walls .
article_snippet.sent: Friends Millie Parkes, Cally Stanhope, Tia Hayward, Jazz Gunnell, and Lillie Stanley, all 16, relax in the sun at the Hot Walls in Portsmouth .
article_snippet.sent: A large ferry towers over residents sunbathing on the beach as temperatures soar at the historic Hot Walls, in Portsmouth today .
article_snippet.sent: A woman soaks up the sun in A woman bikini in Brighton Beach on one of the weekends of the year with temperatures soaring to 16.5C .
article_snippet.sent: A woman relaxes with a book on a deck chair in St James's Park in central London.
article_snippet.sent: The sun rises over than Manchester Ship Canal at Stockton Heath near Warrington this morning  at the start of a dry and sunny day .
article_snippet.sent: Hundreds of people have made the most of the warm weather, pictured a woman sunbathing  in Parliament Square, central London .