A week-long warning over higher temperatures took effect on Saturday in parts of the UK, as the soaring heat poses a greater risk to life for vulnerable people.
Fans staying out in the early hours of Monday to watch England play Mexico in the World Cup will see temperatures in the mid to high teens.
A heatwave could be declared later that day in parts of the south-east, after temperatures reached 29C on Saturday and the same was expected on Sunday, while up to 31C have been forecast for Monday.
Temperatures will approach the low 30s next week before a peak of 34C on Thursday in the south east, the Met Office said.
But while a prolonged spell of hot weather is expected in parts of the UK, it will not be as hot and humid as last month's heatwave.
And a yellow rain warning will come into force in parts of north-west Scotland at 5pm on Sunday, until 10am on Monday, where there could be 40mm of rainfall widely and up to 100mm over the highest ground, the Met Office said.
Yellow heat health alerts have been issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), covering the East Midlands, east, south-east and south-west of England, including London, and the West Midlands, from midday on Saturday until 8pm on 11 July.
Met Office meteorologist Becky Mitchell said: "This coming night should be quite warm across much of England, temperatures in the mid to high teens.
"At 1am in the South East of England temperatures will still be around 16 or 17C, further north, you're looking at 14 or 15C, so pretty warm for overnight.
"It should be quite comfortable for walking home after the match. It's looking quite dry across much of England tonight."
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Ms Mitchell added that temperatures reached 29C on Saturday and similar is expected on Sunday.
She said: "We're already in heatwave threshold category in the South East so, by the end of tomorrow, the South East will officially be in a heatwave."
Last week the UK set a provisional June temperature record of 37.7C in Lingwood in Norfolk, according to the Met Office.
It beat the previous June record for the UK of 35.6C, which dates back to 1976.
William Hutchinson, 31, and Stuart Tallis, 27, were last seen in Preston in Lancashire on 24 June. Mr Tallis was reported missing three days later.
Their bodies were discovered in a blue Peugeot 106, which was "hidden from view, in thick undergrowth" off the A584 Preston New Road in Newton with Clifton, Lancashire Police said in a statement.
"Whilst formal identification is yet to take place, we believe we have found William and Stuart," a spokesperson said.
Their families have been informed and are being supported by specially trained officers, they added.
Officers believe the car left the carriageway at roughly 5.30am on 24 June and have issued an appeal for witnesses.
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Sergeant Martin Wilcock, from the force's serious collision investigation unit, said: "Two men have lost their lives in what appears to be extremely tragic circumstances, and my thoughts are very much with their loved ones at this sad time.
"I know a number of my colleagues were involved in the searches for William and Stuart and I know they were hoping for a happier conclusion.
"My job now is to establish the full circumstances which led to the collision, and that is why I would ask any witnesses or anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage which could help the investigation to make contact with my officers."
Detectives are appealing for the public's help to find Emmanuel Sakyi, who is wanted after fleeing the scene and failing to appear at court for his trial and sentencing.
The 31-year-old, from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was convicted in his absence last Monday of causing death by dangerous driving and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
He was drunk driving on the wrong side of the road at the time of a head-on crash involving two cars in the city in 2022.
A 40-year-old woman, also from Milton Keynes, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of assisting an offender, Thames Valley Police (TVP) said on Sunday.
She has since been released under investigation while inquiries continue, the force added.
What happened in the crash?
Sakyi's conviction at Aylesbury Crown Court related to a collision on 4 December 2022, when he was driving his grey Peugeot 508 between Bond Avenue roundabout and Fenny Lock roundabout in Milton Keynes.
He was more than two-and-a-half times the legal drink-drive limit when his vehicle was involved in a collision with a Fiat 500.
His seven-month-old daughter, Emmanuela, died from injuries she sustained in the crash after not being properly secured in an appropriate child seat, police said. Instead, she was sitting on her mother's lap in the passenger seat.
Following the incident, Sakyi left the scene on foot before later being arrested by officers.
'People in the community know where he is'
Detective Inspector Justin Thomas, of the serious collision investigation unit at TVP, said: "Nearly four years ago, seven-month-old Emmanuela lost her life because her father chose to drink drive. Emmanuel Sakyi should be behind bars. Instead, he remains at large.
"We have made an arrest and are continuing our enquiries to locate Sakyi, but we still need the public's help."
DI Thomas added: "We know there are people within the community who know where Sakyi is or have information that could help us find him.
"I would urge anybody who is assisting him, harbouring him, or helping him evade justice to consider the seriousness of this case and do the right thing.
"Emmanuela lost her life and Sakyi has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. Our determination to locate him has not diminished."
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Prosecutor Daren Samat told Aylesbury Crown Court the defendant did not, as he was legally responsible to, secure his daughter in a car seat or put her in an appropriate restraint.
Jurors during the trial heard that instead, Sakyi "simply allowed her to be carried in the front seat by her mother".
Following the trial at the same court, Emmanuela's mother Ruth Oppong, 34, was convicted of aiding and abetting causing death by dangerous driving and causing unnecessary suffering or injury to a child.
She was sentenced to one year and nine months' imprisonment, suspended for two years.
Sakyi is described as a black man with a medium build, with black hair and brown eyes and is around 5ft 3in tall.
The attack is the latest in a line of long-range bombardments of Russia's oil infrastructure by Kyiv, raising the political pressure on the Kremlin as its invasion of Ukraine stretches into its fifth year.
Governor Alexander Beglov said the city's Kirovsky district on the Baltic Sea was hit. He also said that air defences shot down 72 Ukrainian drones across the city and the surrounding region. He said there were no casualties.
Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the surrounding Leningrad region, said a drone had struck the area of Vysotsk port, about 170 km (105 miles) northwest of St Petersburg on the Baltic Sea.
The port handles oil, grain, coal, and liquefied natural gas.
Drozdenko said 72 drones had been shot down over the region, and there was minor damage in several settlements. He gave no information on the impact on Vysotsk port.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as part of Ukraine's "long-range sanctions" against Russia. He said that Ukrainian forces also hit a military target on the island of Kronstadt, just off the coast of St Petersburg.
President Zelenskyy wrote in a post on Telegram: "The Ukrainian defence forces hit the port oil infrastructure, which earns money for the Russian war, and there were also hits on Kronstadt - an important military target."
There was no Russian confirmation of a strike on Kronstadt, a major naval base near St Petersburg that Ukraine also targeted in an earlier attack in June.
St Petersburg's Kirovsky district was also previously hit in June, on the first day of Russia's flagship St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The border city of Belgorod, which Ukrainian drone strikes have also repeatedly targeted, was left almost completely without power on Saturday due to overnight attacks, local media reported.
In Ukraine's southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia, eight people were wounded, including two children, after a Russian strike hit residential buildings, local authorities said on Saturday.
Ukraine has intensified strikes on Russian energy infrastructure this year, inflicting major damage on refineries and causing gasoline shortages across the country's 11 time zones.
Vladimir Putin has described the attacks on Russian energy as an effort by Ukraine to distract attention from its losses on the battlefield, but analysts say the advance of Russian forces has been hindered in recent months.
On Saturday, Mr Putin signed a law amending tax code to support the fuel market, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump spoke with President Putin and offered to help find a solution to the Ukraine war, a Kremlin aide has said.
Yuri Ushakov said Mr Trump made the offer during a phone call in the context of his participation next week at a NATO summit in Turkey.
"The American president once again confirmed his readiness to work towards a rapid end to the fighting and find solutions to overcome the crisis," Mr Ushakov said of Mr Trump's call with the Russian president.
President Zelenskyy said he also spoke to the US president on Saturday.
Pastor Ezra Jin, the founder of an underground church in China, had been detained in the south of the country since October.
He had been arrested alongside 17 other church members in what was one of China's biggest crackdowns on a single church in decades.
Eight members of Zion Church remain in detention, with nine others recently granted bail.
Pastor Jin arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday and "is finally reunited with his family," Frances Hui of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation wrote on X.
It's understood Pastor Jin's release was prompted by President Trump bringing up the case to Chinese President Xi Jinping during his state visit to Beijing in May.
When wrapping up his state visit, Mr Trump said he raised the issue of the pastor's release with Mr Xi and that the Chinese leader said he would give serious consideration to it.
Pastor Jin's daughter, Grace Jin Drexel, said in a statement that her father's release was a "miracle".
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"Thank you so much for everyone's support and prayers since the beginning," she said.
"We truly witnessed a miracle and we are feeling so overwhelmed with joy. We thank God for this tremendous miracle.
"We also thank President Trump and his administration for their tremendous leadership.
"We know that this could not have happened without the direct intervention from Chairman Xi Jinping.
"We hope this is a signal of a positive turn for people of faith in China and relations between our two nations.
"As this tremendous development all happened so quickly, we ask for your prayers and patience with us as we navigate this critical time."
China's ministry of foreign affairs has not yet commented on the release.
When asked by Sky News previously about conditions for Chinese Christians, a ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson said: "The Chinese government manages religious affairs in accordance with the law and protects people's freedom of religious belief and normal religious activities."




