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Wed 08 Aug 2007Forecasters say summer is set to arrive at lastThe children are going back to school next week and the days are getting noticeably shorter, but summer may be here at last.The good weather is a result of the high pressure area over the Azores which hitherto has stubbornly refused to move north all summer, leaving northern Europe at the mercy of depressions which have brought with them one of the wettest summers on record.