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'Get a grip, UK!': Britain buckles under just six inches of snow with 50,000 passengers stranded by cancelled flights, 4,500 homes without power, 2,300 schools shut and dozens of gridlocked roads
Much of Britain has been paralysed in the last 24 hours following the first serious snowfall of winter. Cars have been abandoned and motorists left stranded as some suffered crashes on the roads - while thousands spent the night at Heathrow, Birmingham, Stansted and Luton airports after flights were delayed or cancelled. DailyMail.com US Editor-at-Large Piers Morgan said: 'Can we get a grip when it snows a bit?' Pictured: A snowy road in Hastings, East Sussex (top), passengers sleep at London Heathrow Airport (bottom left), a plough clears snow at a school in Wrexham, North Wales (bottom right), and people react to the snow on Twitter
Britain is suffering a chaotic 'Black Monday' today with more snow due and swathes of treacherous ice on the roads as temperatures dropped to -12C overnight.
Much of the country has been paralysed in the last 24 hours following the first serious snowfall of winter - and today more than 2,000 schools are closed and at least 4,500 homes remain without power.
Cars have been abandoned and motorists left stranded as some suffered crashes on the roads - while thousands spent the night at Heathrow, Birmingham, Stansted and Luton airports after flights were delayed or cancelled.
Some 50,000 British Airways passengers are stranded - 30,000 in the UK and 20,000 in Europe - after a bitingly cold night which saw temperatures fall to -12.2C (10F) in the aptly-named Chillingham Barns, Northumberland.
National Rail said poor weather is affecting travel. Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, Great Western, and Virgin Trains have all been hit, while East Midlands Trains customers are being advised to check their trains are running.
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