Published: 12:25, 11 February 2021 | Updated: 15:42, 11 February 2021
The UK recorded its lowest temperature in more than two decades as the mercury plunged to minus 23C overnight following an “extreme freeze”.
Braemar, Aberdeenshire, saw temperatures hit a bone-chilling minus 23.0C (minus 9.4F), the coldest temperature recorded in the UK since 1995, the Met Office said.
The cold snap produced some icy scenes across the country: