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Friday was the coldest January night in the UK in 15 years after temperatures plummeted to -18.7C in a hamlet in northern Scotland, the Met Office said.

Altnaharra, in the Highlands, first recorded the temperature at 10pm Friday night, with the freezing conditions lasting well into Saturday morning.

It is …

“I’ve heard her voice in training sometimes,” Callum Simpson says quietly as looks up in his apartment in Dewsbury and remembers his sister Lily-Rae who, just over four months ago,

died tragically

The “all-weather” fixture on the Flat at Lingfield on Friday succumbed to the Arctic blast that has played havoc with the racing programme over the past week while the feature meeting at Kempton on Saturday was also abandoned after an inspection of the track on Friday morning, but ITV Racing …

A rise in electricity costs this week has raised fears that officials operating Great Britain’s power market could be held to “ransom” by owners of gas power plants during cold, windless days in order to keep the lights on. Here, we look why costs have increased sharply, the trading rules …

Maybe Elon Musk is the man to revive English rugby union. He already believes he has the solutions to most of the universe’s biggest problems so reforming a mere sports team should be a piece of futuristic cake. Throw £40bn at it, take over the comms department and stick the …

For a brief moment this week, lynx roamed the Scottish Highlands once again. But this was not the way conservationists had hoped to end their 1,000-year absence.

On Wednesday, Police Scotland received reports of two lynx in a forest in the Cairngorms national park, sparking a frantic search. That episode …

More than a million fans are set to attend the Australian Open over the next two weeks to experience the sights, sounds and flavours of Melbourne Park. But they soon might not recognise the precinct as work starts on a new vision that will transform Victoria’s historic sporting hub.

Melbourne …

The UK has enough gas and electricity to meet demand this winter, the government has insisted, after the company that owns the country’s gas stores said levels had become “concerningly low” amid the

current cold snap

Centrica, which also owns British Gas, said on Friday that its …

An England-wide amber health alert has been extended to Tuesday as temperatures are expected to continue to fall over the weekend.

The UK Health Security Agency

extended the alert

Below-zero temperatures are forecast at City Park on Friday evening but the warmth radiating from Bradford’s mighty UK city of culture opening will undoubtedly put everyone in the mood to celebrate.

The city was right in the centre of a badly timed amber weather warning this week and suffered a …