Back to school . . . so it’s going to be hot!

BAKE OFF winner Nadiya Hussain said that racist abuse “has become a part of my life”.

Becoming the latest castaway on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Hussain, 31, said: “It sounds really silly but it feels like that’s become a part of my life now, I expect it.

“I expect to be shoved or pushed or verbally abused, because it happens, it’s happened for years.”

The mother-of-three said the abuse had made her even more determined to be a role model to her children and the wider Muslim community.

She said: “I love being British and I love living here, this is my home and it always will be regardless of all the other things that define me.

“This is my home and I want my kids to be proud of that and I don’t want them to grow up with a chip on their shoulder, so I live as positively as I can.”

Among the tracks she chose was Counting Crows’ Accidentally In Love. Hussain was 19 when she tied the knot in an arranged marriage to husband Abdul, and he would play the song in the background while they conducted their six-month courtship over the phone.

Since winning last year’s show, she is thought to have made more than £1 million. Desert Island Discs airs on BBC Radio 4 at 11.15am today. A PLUME of hot air is set to make Scotland more scorching than Brazil – just as kids start back to school.

Thousands of children are due back in class from tomorrow, as a mini heat wave hits following weeks of autumnal weather.

The news was branded the ultimate irony by mums braving the dank cold in Rouken Glen park, in East Renfrewshire, yesterday.

Mum-of-one Donna MacLaren, 33, of Newton Mearns, near Glasgow, said: “It’s the first day of term on Monday so, of course, it’s time for the sun to shine on Scotland!”

The mum of little Joshua, 5, added: “It really is painfully ironic.”

Scotland will enjoy sunshine and temperatures topping 77F – hotter than Brazil – at the start of the week.

Tuesday is expected to be the sunniest day of the week, thanks to a super-heated prong of hot air making its way to the UK from Spain.

The Met Office said Tuesday’s 75F high is set to be hotter than Sao Paulo, due for 71F on the same day.

However, niceweather-inspired sick days could cost Scotland’s economy an average of £12 million per working day.

Numbers of “sickies” spike in nice weather, with this week’s mini burst of blue skies likely to prove particularly alluring to sun-starved Scots.

Research has shown 70% of workers are tempted to call in sick in hot weather.

The Met Office said Scotland would miss heavy thunderstorms that look set to batter the west of England on Wednesday. Forecaster Chris Page said: “Scotland looks like 21C tomorrow, with 24C on Tuesday and 22C on Wednesday, slightly lower than first forecast as hot air still arrives from the continent, but with lighter southerly winds than originally expected.

“But Scotland looks like missing the heavy, isolated thundery downpours, affecting the west of England and Wales in midweek.

“And the north of the UK looks more settled than the south later this week.”

New figures have revealed Scotland’s death rate rocketed to “significant excess” levels when the temperature soared last month.

July 19 was baking hot across the whole country, with a high of 29.8C (85.6F) recorded.

Reported deaths soared above average in the week ending July 22, National Records Scotland deaths data revealed.

Scotland averages around 1000 weekly deaths in summer, according to the data.

National Federation of Occupational Pensioners chief executive Malcolm Booth said: “Hot weather deaths in Scotland occur at lower temperature levels than England.”