The day the sea froze: Temperature plunges to MINUS 12C and forecasters say it won't warm up until Sunday | Mail Online

Temperatures plunged so low today that the sea actually began to freeze as Arctic conditions continued to grip the UK.
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The fountains in Trafalgar Square had frozen over this morning due to the freezing cold temperatures in London.
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The weather also has serious implications for the elderly, experts say. They predict that 12 an hour could die from the cold.

CHRISTOPHER BOOKER: Dimwits! Those bright sparks over in Brussels have decided to stop you buying old-fashioned light bulbs

As the Daily Mail revealed yesterday, our shops and supermarkets will from this week be running down their stocks of familiar 100-watt incandescent light bulbs, the kind most of us use in our homes when we need a good light to read by.

Soon it will be hard to find a 100w bulb on sale anywhere in Britain.
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All this is part of a move by which Britain is leading the rest of Europe in forcing us all within three years to switch to nothing but 'low-energy' bulbs, or CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps), which supposedly are going to help us save the planet from that global warming which has been so much in evidence in recent days.