Lancashire weather: This is how you have been surviving the heat as temperatures soar - in pictures

While it is technically still not a heatwave, temperatures across the county have reached the high twenties on Bank Holiday Monday.

A heatwave in the UK is only declared after three consecutive days above a set threshold, usually between 25C and 28C locally, so we are not quite there yet.

But as the county sizzles, Lancastrians have headed for beaches and parks, finding ingenious ways to keep cool.

Here’s what you’ve been up to and how some of you have been beating the warm weather, in pictures.