{"id":202147,"date":"2025-06-21T09:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202147\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:10:15","slug":"thousands-gather-at-stonehenge-for-summer-solstice-as-heatwave-grips-london-and-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202147\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands gather at Stonehenge for summer solstice as heatwave grips London and the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the capital, the mercury had already climbed to 18C by 5am, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/met-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Met Office<\/a> confirming that many areas across England \u2014 including Greater London \u2014 officially entered a heatwave on Friday. Yeovilton in Somerset and Crosby in Merseyside recorded the highest overnight temperatures in the country, both reaching 19.7C by 6am, while towns in Cumbria and Lancashire also reported overnight highs above 19C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the capital, the mercury had already climbed to 18C by 5am, with the Met Office confirming that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,52816,4884,2461,257,1142,81566,79033,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-202147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-english-heritage","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-heatwave","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-met-office","15":"tag-stonehenge","16":"tag-summer-solstice","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114720579449248950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}