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The cold weather payment is a government benefit top-up to help with fuel bills, external.

Prof Damian Bailey says "the evidence clearly suggests that cold is more deadly than the heat"

A yellow weather warning for snow and ice forecast for the region has meant cold weather plans for Merseyrail and Network Rail have been activated.

One passenger wrote on X that they were "being made to stand on the tarmac in a very cold Verona waiting for an already delayed flight".

The early hours of Monday saw the coldest temperatures since last winter, with minus 7.8C logged in Tulloch Bridge, Scotland.