‘It’s more February than August’: holidaymakers sit out storm in Cornwall

Britain's soggy summer is enough to make you give up and head to the Med. Yet families are happily splashing around on the beach in St Ives

Huddled together in fleece-lined beach robes while other family members play football nearby, Kate and Tilly Perrett look as if they might be regretting taking their summer holiday in St Ives, Cornwall. The wind is nippy, the sky is ominously grey and Kate's sunglasses haven't been called into action much all week.

The weather's been touch and go every day, but we don't let it bother us at all, we're still having fun," says Kate, with a broad smile.