'Snot exactly the world's most exciting news story, is it? In the north, hundreds of cars and lorries are trapped in blizzards and several people have died. In the west a truck ferry and a trawler have run aground. In the south a helicopter is trying to rescue the seriously injured captain of a freighter.
And in Birmingham, a pushchair was caught by the wind and fell over into a pond. Nobody was hurt, though two people got a little damp.