HOT STUFF: Despite the lure of the World Cup, many tourists and residents took to Bournemouth beach on Sunday
SUN worshippers packed out the beach by Bournemouth Pier at the weekend as a forecast lengthy spell of hot, sunny weather got under way.
With a sizeable high pressure area moving across the UK over the next week, forecasters are predicting sunny cloud-free skies for the next seven days.
Temperatures could hit a high of 26C on Wednesday and even 28C on Thursday - which is forecast to be hotter than many Spanish resorts.
As reported in the Echo last week, Dorset has seen just two per cent of its average rainfall this month. And that follows up on an extremely dry May.
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