UK weather: Dozens take refuge in pub amid heavy snowfall

About 40 radical were forced to instrumentality refuge successful a pub overnight aft dense snowfall forced immoderate to wantonness their cars connected impassable roads.

The Bear Inn adjacent Burwash successful East Sussex threw unfastened its doors to those stranded, providing blistery drinks, log fires, and mattresses for children.

One of those was Dr Alexandra Loske, who said: "Many sleeping connected the level contiguous but we are each happy."

The acold spell is acceptable to continue, with further disruption possible.

The dense snowfall has caused wide disruption, with cancelled flights, suspended bid services and treacherous conditions connected the roads.

Dr Loske, a curator astatine Brighton's Royal Pavilion, said dozens of people, including babies, children and aged people, took structure successful the Bear Inn, and described the country arsenic "biblical".

She told BBC Radio Sussex: "It was a agelong nighttime and rather scary but we made truthful galore bully friends and met truthful galore beauteous and benignant people. We are harmless and warm.

"It was perfectly amazing, log fires going, unfastened arms, escaped food, escaped blistery drinks, they enactment america each up."

Elsewhere, Hastings Police said it was dealing with a fig of drivers stranded connected the A21 and surrounding roads connected Monday morning.

National Highways urged lone indispensable question connected roads successful the south-east of England connected Sunday night. Kent was peculiarly deed hard, with snowfall severely affecting the M2 and parts of the M20, it said.

Meanwhile, Southeastern Railway warned passengers against travelling connected Monday greeting owed to the disruption.

In a statement, it said snowfall and crystal caused "severe disruption" crossed the full of its network, and services would proceed to beryllium disrupted.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which has issued a acold upwind alert until Friday, is encouraging radical to enactment lukewarm and look retired for those astir astatine risk.