Who's to blame for winter that just won't end? Maybe it's a dastardly Russian plot - Winnipeg Free Press

Once upon a time -- as all good stories are supposed to begin -- their kingdom was a place of warm and beautiful springs, the kind of springs you only read about in stories that begin with the words "once upon a time."

But now there was a darkness upon the land and their dreams of backyard barbecues and digging in the garden and going to the beach and baking their pasty white skin were being snowed under by The Winter That Refused To End.

The people were sad. But mostly they were cranky. Big-time cranky.

Epsom Hospital services overwhelmed by outbreak of winter norovirus, report shows (From Epsom Guardian)

In a statement a spokesman for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust said: “The additional pressures we faced at Epsom and St Helier hospitals as a result of the cold weather and more seasonal illnesses were certainly not unique to our Trust.