His Citroën crawled through the heavy snow, back through the dark villages buried in silence.

Be ready to make a mercy dash after heavy snow, shaking it off the upward sweeping branches of conifers.

The match was reduced to a farce as heavy snow swamped the pitch and reduced visibility like a fog.

Vast swathes of usually green agricultural grassland are all brown after suffering prolonged frost and heavy snow.

In near hurricane winds and heavy snow, the forces ran into trouble and called for helicopters to rescue them.