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UK ‘as cold as South Pole’
Friday 8th January 2010, 11:40AM GMT.
Much Wenlock in the snow, from photographer and local resident Don Cockman
The death toll caused by the big freeze rose again yesterday after the body of 45-year-old Philip Hughes from Slough was recovered from beneath the ice of a frozen lake in Frimley Green, Surrey, where he had been watching the BDO darts world championship.
Police in Shropshire today warned people to stay off frozen lakes, rivers, canals or ponds for their own safety.
And drivers face more hazardous conditions as people struggle to get to work and the shops. The Safer Roads Partnership in West Mercia is advising motorists to watch out for ice forming on the roads.
Some councils were forced to ration their salt yesterday as one of the biggest suppliers of rock salt in the UK asked the Department for Transport to draw up a list of priority customers.
By Lisa Rowley
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we have loved seeing all the pictures of the snow,it makes me feel homesick,we live in spain,it’s been really cold here & still is.
Thank you all so much.
Gloria & Reg Hoskins.
(ex pats from Whitton,Ludlow)
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