Arctic snap expected to continue
Fountains frozen over in Trafalgar Square, London
The cold snap is expected to continue across the UK, with lows of -8C (17.6F) forecast for much of southern England and Wales.
Forecasters say temperatures could drop to -10C in rural Hampshire and Surrey and Bristol could dip to -6C overnight.
The mercury dropped to -11C in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, and in Shap, Cumbria, on Monday night.
Britain's biggest pensioner group has warned that 12 pensioners could die every hour during the cold snap.
The prediction from the National Pensioner Convention (NPC) is based on official statistics, which show from December 2007 to March 2008 there were an extra 25,300 deaths in England and Wales compared with the average for non-winter months.
The NPC is calling on the government to double the winter fuel allowance to
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