Met Office issues two severe cold weather alerts - ITV News

The Met Office has issued a severe cold weather alert for North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber.

Record numbers betting on White Christmas in 2012

According to bookmakers Ladbrokes, more money had been staked on a White Christmas yesterday than by any other December 1 in its history.

FOCUS | Secretary of State Al Gore? // [Al Gore's] Current TV

What about his climate-change crusade, you wonder? Far from having to drop his signature issue, Gore could use his new position to push it with even greater vigor in a global context. Gore, and probably Gore alone, would be capable of elevating the climate change issue to the position it deserves on the national and global stage.