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Travel chaos struck across large parts of the UK on Monday as ice, fog and snow caused disruption following the coldest night of the year so far.

The Met Office issued yellow severe weather alerts due to the wintry conditions.

It was the coldest night of the year so far, with temperatures in northern Scotland dipping below minus 15C.

The Met Office said that the lowest temperature recorded was -15.6C at Braemer in Aberdeenshire, with the five next coldest temperatures all recorded in Scotland, including -13.1 at Balmoral.

Among the locations with fresh snow on Sunday was Andrewsfield, Essex (9cm), Charlwood, Surrey (5cm) and Herstmonceux, East Sussex (4cm).

Roads in eastern and south-east England are among the worst affected.

Columnist Peter Hitchens criticised Britain as a 'country of excuses' as snow caused chaos.

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