shivering

Most of the city is asleep, but on an athletics track just south of the River Thames one man - shivering and soaked to the bone in shorts, T-shirt and makeshift gilet fashioned from a black bin bag - is running laps.

The shivering Robb, a 40-year-old software engineer from Bristol who decided not to bring a jacket despite a weather warning on the forecast, shuffles forward trying to protect his lead.

“I think we’re trying to paint a picture that women and children and people with babies are shivering outside in the cold and that’s our homeless population, I know that exists somewhere,” Negrete said.

The former diplomat, who was working in Cuba when he fled with his family to South Korea last November, admits to "shivering with nerves" the first time he met Kim Jong Un.

Until the final minutes of their commencement ceremony last Thursday, the 1,200 graduates of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth thought they knew what they would remember most about it: the supremely bad weather during the outdoor ceremony, where they sat drenched and shivering in a torrential rainstorm.