Britain is basking in its hottest early spring days for almost 200 years.The country has not seen a scorcher like this since Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist.
The 21C heat puts Tenerife in the shade and comes as sudden BBQ weather sparks an out-of-season bangers, burgers and booze sales boom.Supermarkets are scrambling to stock up as burger sales are rocketing by 50% and ice lolly sales are set to treble.
Tesco is expected to sell 250,000 packets of sausages, over a million bottles of beer and a million bottles of wine, while Asda is set to sell over 500,000 burgers and 250,000 sausages this week.
Cloudless skies were shown on satellite images as temperatures push up to 10C above the 11C mid-March average amid warm air from the continent.
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