They attract the brimstone and small tortoiseshell butterflies that have been coming out in the warm sunshine.

And yet it looked so promising this weekend, when much of the country basked in warm sunshine.

The warm sunshine on Wednesday might have felt like spring had returned again, but it was a cruel deception.

He puts Rebecca down on the roof terrace in the warm sunshine, dropping her onto the gravelly flooring.

Blue skies, warm sunshine, light breezes and steadily rising temperatures are all expected to make this a week to head outdoors.