UK looks more like Lapland after widespread snow – and there’s more to come

Snowy scenes like this in England never used to be much to write home about, with children building snowmen every winter.

But winters have been getting warmer and wetter, and big dumps of snow spaced further between over the past decades.

Today saw plenty of the white stuff, however, with even London seeing some flurries in the morning rush hour.

Elsewhere, there were proper piles of it...