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For farmers, the main priority has been to make sure their livestock has been kept sheltered and fed – and with sheep normally outside at this time of year, some animals have had to be dug out of drifting snow. Our correspondent Jonathan Miller has been to one farm on Exmoor – where they’ve been…
Whenever the temperature falls below freezing, local authorities have a duty to provide emergency shelter to rough sleepers. Mosques, drive-through restaurants and even a football stadium all opened their doors to provide refuge this week, but at least two people lost their lives sleeping outside in sub zero conditions. Paul McNamara reports.
In Scotland – where yellow weather warnings remain in place – the government has opened up an emergency funding scheme to help local authorities cope. Ciaran Jenkins reports.
The chaos brought by the snow and stormy conditions is still causing widespread disruption as transport services and other businesses struggle to recover. All the disruption is costing the British economy an estimated £900 million a day. Siobhan Kennedy reports.
Entire train services stopped running. Major stations were closed. Thousands of flights have been cancelled. The advice, say experts, is not to travel at all. Snow, ice and freezing rain are causing yet more misery around the country, while heavy rain and thawing snow have triggered flood alerts for many areas too. Six people have…
A red weather warning, meaning a risk to life, has now been applied to the South and West of England and parts of Wales. Storm Emma has rolled in, adding strong winds to the snow and below-freezing temperatures. But while cities like Bristol are laying on hundreds of extra beds for rough sleepers, smaller towns…
Kent is another area badly affected by the weather.
Liam Dutton
With the coldest spell of weather for at least five years set to bring disruptive snow to the UK this week, here are useful tips that will help you stay up to date and be prepared for what’s to come.
Jon Snow
He threw me out in the eighties, and until now I had never been back. I thought it wise to wait until the old man had been dethroned, or had died. African potentates don’t come much worse than Bob Mugabe. A man who blew his formidable intellect in the pursuit of absolute power. One tends to forget his four or…
Severe gales have proved fatal as stormy weather battered Britain and continental Europe. Three people died in the Netherlands as gusts of over 80 miles per hour toppled trees, blew over lorries and ripped off rooves. Here in Britain, fallen trees blocked railway lines and roads and thousands of homes and businesses were left without…
It’s been a difficult day if you were trying to get somewhere, either to see or perhaps to flee family. Snowfall across England and Wales has seen closures, on the roads, on the rails and in the air and there are warnings of freezing temperatures and ice tonight.
Major roads were brought to a standstill, flights were suspended and railways disrupted as heavy snow and high winds hit large parts of England and Wales.
Liam Dutton
As cold Arctic air returns to the UK in the coming days, some places will see significant snow. But where, when and how much?
Liam Dutton
Predicting snow in the UK is difficult and weather computer models rarely get it right more than a few days ahead. But why is this the case?
Ulrike Guerot, who’s the founder of the European Democracy Lab, discusses the German elections.