Coastguard warns beach-goers after highest number of daily call-outs in four years
of the 329 incidents, lifeboats - including RNLI and independent - were called out 129 times, aircraft were sent out 22 times and hovercraft were used three times.
The east and south coast and the north west coast saw the"heaviest" number of call-outs, while the area around Liverpool and the Wirral saw the most reported incidents at 26, the coastguard said. Temperatures recorded at Heathrow reached 37.8C , making it the third warmest day ever recorded in the UK.
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