‘Earth sends a warning’: how the papers covered the UK’s scorching heat

A Buckingham Palace guard suffering in the sun gets the picture editors' attention, along with the prospect of more such heatwaves in the future

A picture of a Queen's Guard sentry being given a sip of water outside Buckingham Palace is the defining image on Tuesday's front pages, as the heatwave put the climate crisis in fresh focus.

All but a couple of the front pages feature the picture of the guardsman in his bearskin hat taking much-needed relief from the heat which on Monday topped 37.4 degrees in west London and a nationwide high of 38.1C in Santon Downham in Suffolk.