Snow and ice causes trouble across parts of England

Heavy snow and freezing rain have caused travel chaos up and down the country. Some areas reached minus 11 Celsius, and a rare amber health alert is in place for all of England until Wednesday.

A number of airports have been severely affected, with Liverpool and Leeds Bradford Airport forced to shut runways this morning, and delays continuing into the afternoon.

Birmingham Airport suspended operations for several hours overnight, and Bristol and Manchester diverted flights - one landing as far away as Paris.

There have been problems on the roads too, with the A66 in Cumbria and County Durham closed between the M6 and A1M.

The A1 Southbound was blocked by a lorry and there have been several collisions reported in both directions of the M5 in the South West.

Meanwhile more than two thousand homes across Wales and parts of southern and central England have been left without power.

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[BrianWillcox-qphr]

Britain has forgotten that this is how a winter should be.

[mikehudson]

What a load of absolute nonsense...It wasn't heavy and it wasn't freezing just scaremongering for the sake of it...Sad thing is there are more and more people lapping this up....

[xutsider]

Snow and Ice are the last things causing trouble for England

[brandonkrugel]

fear mongering over fucking snow, literally snowed for a few hours where i was, snow melted in the afternoon busineess as usual. such a wet blanket country.

[wendyhall]

Awww come on.... this isn't heavy snow, honestly the rest of Europe must be laughing their heads off at the ridiculous panic the press and MSM are spouting. 😂😂😂

[boona]

There is a thing like "winter tyres" to solve this "apocalyptic natural thing". Shame on UK, such an advance country, afraid of 20mm of snow.

[karenebevanswild]

All this fuss about nothing. When was 16, we used to walk to school in snow above Yr boots, and I was 5ft 7in Now they shut schools if there is an inch of snow.!!!!@

[StephenMerchant-upsg]

Incredible isn't it that none of the media has actually uploaded any photos of 'heavy snow'.

[matthewbaynham]

I left the UK 20 years ago and have lived in the Netherlands, Switzerland and now Germany. When the UK gets such a small amount of snow and their is absolute chaos it's just incompetence.

The local councils need to have the resources to keep the roads and pavements clear. People should put snow tires on their cars in the winter. And airports just need to get on with it like they do in countries with far more snow.

There is no reason why the country should be at a stand still when so little snow is falling, it's just pathetic.

[AustinSaysSo]

Not as much chaos and trouble as the disgusting grooming gangs have caused. Which you're complicit in helping cover up by not reporting on it.
Justice for the girls and accountability for all involved.

[killavision]

The UK, the second largest economy in Europe and also the only the only country in Europe that can’t handle snow?

[cauSEVAS]

Bilions on council and road tax but cant prepare roads before snow come....crazy

[alexanderwhite]

Start using winter tyres like the rest of the world and this wouldn't happen.

[Eco-Innovate]

It’s amazing how something as beautiful as snow can bring such chaos

[Suspiria]

And meanwhile pensioners are freezing and people telling the truth about what’s going on are in prison.. Great headline channel 4.

[philipdurling]

A couple of inches of snow in the Winter and the MSM goes into panic mode

[rorto]

It was barely a smattering let alone the apocalyptic "stock up on essentials" that the media was pushing.
Stop trying to cause a panic!

[TAER]

Not even an inch. Blame council budgeting corruption. Stop paying taxes

[bear]

Look at the media making a big deal of snow 😂

[nickh]

This incredible phenomenon is what is generally known as “winter”