Rescue teams are scouring through a country park after a teenage boy went missing in the water on the hottest day of the year.
Emergency services scrambled to Rother Valley Park in Rotherham, Yorkshire, shortly before 7pm on Monday as temperatures soared beyond 30C.
A teenage boy had earlier been seen entering one of the scenic park’s four lakes, but had not been spotted getting out.
The missing person is yet to have been found, despite crews and a helicopter working through the night in a bid to find him.
Rother Valley Park stretches across three sq km and is located near Rotherham’s border
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