Children have been pictured traipsing to school in the snow on the first day of term amid lockdown chaos. Primary schools are meant to be fully open in all but 60 council areas from today, despite a new variant of Covid-19.
Photographs this morning show kids walking to school with their parents as the Met Office warned of treacherously icy conditions with fears another "Beast from the East" could strike in days.
But a huge number of schools outside the 60 worst-hit areas in England have refused to comply with advice to reopen. It comes as Labour leader Keir Starmer led calls for a national lockdown. Is your child back at school today?
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