UK braced for more disruption from snow and ice

Wintery upwind which has caused road, obstruction and aerial question disruption crossed the UK is acceptable to proceed overnight and into Tuesday, forecasters say.

Provisional Met Office figures amusement Monday was the coldest time successful the UK since December 2010 with -9.3 Celsius (15F) seen astatine Braemar, Aberdeenshire.

There is besides a yellowish informing for crystal successful south-east England.

The children, aged 8, 10 and 11, died aft falling into the water astatine Babbs Mill Park, Kingshurst, connected Sunday. A 4th boy, aged six, is successful a captious information successful infirmary aft being pulled from the water.

Supt Richard Harris of West Midlands Police said officers were moving done the details of what had happened and could not accidental however agelong the boys had been successful the h2o earlier exigency services arrived.

Met Office spokesperson Oli Claydon said determination volition beryllium dense snowfall again connected Tuesday successful parts of Britain, with arsenic overmuch arsenic 15-20cms (6-8ins) accumulating connected higher ground.

"In presumption of temperature, we could spot different precise acold night, particularly successful parts of Scotland wherever we've got that lying snow," helium said, adding that "widespread freezing conditions" were expected.

Mr Claydon urged commuters crossed the UK to "leave a small spot much time" if driving and to question with "a spot of other caution".

Industrial enactment is expected to impact overmuch of the obstruction web connected Tuesday and Wednesday, with much travellers expected to instrumentality to the roads.

Motoring organisation the RAC said it had received much than 9,000 calls from drivers needing roadside assistance - astir 8 breakdowns each infinitesimal - which was "50% much than we'd expect connected a emblematic Monday successful December".

It said radical should lone thrust if conditions let and if they consciousness assured to bash so, informing drivers to hole for highly slippery conditions.

It besides urged motorists to transportation a broad and a fully-charged mobile telephone erstwhile travelling.

Traffic Scotland said crystal was affecting driving conditions successful the Strathclyde, Lothian and Borders, Central, Tayside, Fife, and South-West regions of the country.

On Monday, galore airports astir the UK were affected by the weather, with much than 140 flights cancelled due to the fact that of crystal and snow.

London airports - Stansted, Gatwick, Luton and London City - were among the worst affected, portion flights from elsewhere successful the state were besides cancelled owed to mediocre upwind conditions.

Steven Facer, from Rutland, told the BBC helium and different passengers were near sitting connected a Barcelona-bound formation from Stansted for respective hours connected Sunday nighttime earlier it was yet cancelled.

Mr Facer past had a "long thrust location successful the snowfall arriving backmost astatine 02:00".

As temperatures driblet beneath freezing councils are urging radical to cheque connected susceptible neighbours, peculiarly arsenic the outgo of surviving situation has made it excessively costly for immoderate to vigor their homes.

The Local Government Association, which represents councils successful England and Wales, said that portion deaths bash emergence during mean wintertime periods, immoderate radical were much exposed to the acold this winter.

It said those astir astatine hazard were the aged and radical with respiratory conditions, circulatory diseases and dementia, adding that galore councils were utilizing libraries oregon different section venues to supply lukewarm spaces for those who request them.

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