People are waking up to the rare gift of a White Christmas in parts of the UK. Snowy scenes greeted people in Hessle, East Yorkshire, as they flung open their curtains on Christmas morning.
Reports of snow are coming from Leconfield in Humberside and Wattisham in Suffolk early this morning, as the festive season gets off to a frosty start.
Newcastle and Durham got a blanketing on Christmas Eve, to the delight of families hoping for postcard-perfect snowy scenes to brighten the end of a challenging year.
The Met Office issued ice warnings for parts of northern England, the Midlands, and Scotland throughout Christmas as Storm Bella is forecast to arrive on Boxing Day.
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