In Pictures: Sun sets on record-breaking Easter weekend

All four of the UK nations have recorded their warmest Easter Monday on record, the Met Office has said.

A canal boat leaves the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum after the Easter Boat Gathering

Another day of spring sunshine saw highs of 25C at Heathrow and Northolt, in London, as well as Wisley, in Surrey, beating the previous English record of 24C in the Solent in 2011.

Temperatures reached 24.2C at Kinlochewe in the Scottish Highlands, 23.6C in Cardiff and 21.4C in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Early morning sunlight over rapeseed fields in East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire (Neil Squires/PA)

The highs beat the countries’ previous Easter Monday records of 21.4C at Culzean Castle on Scotland’s Ayrshire coast in 2014, 23.2C in Nantmor in north Wales in 1984, and 21.1C in Northern Ireland’s County Fermanagh in 1984.