CHARD and Ilminster is expected to be baked with sunshine over the next week and a half, weather experts say.
A Met Office spokesman said there is no talk of a hosepipe ban or any measures to combat the dry spell at the moment.
In the UK, an absolute drought is defined as a period of at least 15 consecutive days on none of which is there more than 0.2 mm of rainfall.
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