THE long spell of warm weather has seen tourists flock to the Lake Distirct, ice cream sales rocket and water levels plummet. 

The hot weather always makes for some golden photo opportunities and we are sure that in years to come, people will look back at these weeks and remember the long hot summer of 2018!

With that in mind we would like to collate a selection of hot weather pictures. If you have taken any pictures over the last few weeks of low rivers or family trips to the Lake District - or anything that simply captures the spirit of the heatwave - then send them to sara.royle@nqnw.co.uk with a brief description.

We would like to include some of these pictures in the newspaper with your credit and all of them in an online picture gallery.