The weekend's temperatures were 8C higher than the average for May, leaving Birmingham as swelteringly hot as several European holiday destinations. |
It's not swelteringly hot, like in the summer months, and the courses look nicely verdant too. |
Yet the story works very well in the theatre – a medium perhaps even better suited to evoking the swelteringly repressive atmosphere of the Old South and the righteous fury at the treatment of farm labourer Tom Robinson. |
Here was this African-American voter in khaki shorts, a v-neck T-shirt and black-rimmed eyeglasses, browsing shops at the Crabtree Valley Mall, on a swelteringly hot Friday in the not-yet summer of the American south. |
Commuters travelling on London's swelteringly hot tube buses and trains during the summer months will be used to reminders to take a bottle of water on their journey. |
It looks like a godforsaken place: just to get there busloads of people drive through a swelteringly hot landscape of bombed-out houses, emaciated cattle and mangled cars. |