Temperatures have fallen even further in Britain overnight, with some parts of the country reaching -12C, as snow wreaked havoc on the travel network and one man was said to have frozen to death in his car.
Drivers have told of being stuck on snowy roads for as long as 19 hours, as temperatures dropped below zero and much of the UK remained in the grip of a wintry blast.
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