Forecasters are predicting that temperatures will drop well below freezing this week, after the spell of mild weather over the holiday period comes to an abrupt end. Snow and icy Siberian winds are forecast to hit Britain tomorrow and Thursday, causing chaos and congestion on the roads as millions return to work. The Met Office forecasts an average temperature of just 2.5C (36.5F), although it says that there will be a severe wind chill factor. The average temperature for last January was 6C. Brian Golding, head of forecasting at the Met Office, said: “After a mild Christmas and new year, we will notice a real change to some cold and wintry weather. We will need to be prepared and wrap up well as we head back to work.” The weather is expected to start to turn colder tomorrow, with temperatures plunging from 10C to 4C overnight. Any part of Britain could potentially wake up to snow on Thursday morning, the Met Office said, with rain, sleet and snow expected to brush through the South, and showers expected in the North. No more than 1cm of snow is expected, although forecasters say that this could increase to 10cm (4 inches) in hilly and mountainous areas. Friday will be brighter, although still very cold. Experts disagree on the course of the weather after this cold snap. The Met Office says that January and February look set to be unseasonably mild. A spokesman said: “The evidence we have at the moment suggests that January and February will be milder than we would normally expect at this time of year.” However, Piers Corbyn, from the long-range forecaster Weatheraction, predicted that temperatures would fall as low as minus 17C (1.5F) in mid-January, with heavy snow in the South East. Mr Corbyn said: “This could make this January the coldest since 1987.” The TimesThe Samba dancers at the Save the Woodhead Tunnel event on Saturday the 12th Jan better wrap up warm if this weather materializes, because Woodhead can get exceptionally cold due to the exposed nature of the surrounding terrain. I am planning to walk from Hadfield along route of the former railway. If the temperature dips to -17, it should be a good exercise in ‘character building’.
Tameside Citizen
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Well we know that 25,000 British pensioners die each year from the cold because they cannot afford to pay their heating bills.
Pensioners need immediate help say the TUC. Between 20,000 to 50,000 pensioners are thought to die each winter because of the cold. And while there has been a real reduction in households in fuel poverty, energy prices have risen by 13 per cent in a year. The Chancellor should therefore use some of the extra income raised from the tax on oil companies to index link the Winter Fuel Allowance, and there should be a significant increase in the age related supplement (paid to the over 80s) who are the most likely pensioners to be poor and most in need of help with heating costs. The state pension should go up in line with earnings from next year.
Fuel bills 'put elderly at risk'
Many pensioners struggle to stay warm in winter
A senior public health official has warned that the lives of thousands of elderly people are at risk because they cannot afford to heat their homes.
Rod Griffiths of the Faculty of Public Health said there would be "a lot more deaths, unnecessary deaths, because people cannot afford the fuel".
Charity Age Concern wants a £100 rise in the winter fuel payment.
Ministers say current payouts of up to £200 for single people and £300 for couples will stay as they are.
The average winter payment now covers less than a fifth of the average energy bill.
Help the Aged said rising council tax bills meant some pensioners were cutting back on food and heating
I hope u all enjoy ur protest, even if u manage to get the railway reopened you cannot stop progress and the bypass will be built
I would like to ask cllr John Taylor if he would put my picture on his website, I will pick my photo.
Roy West Independent Nationalist in Dukinfield.
IT'S FUCKIN FREZZING
Every thread of creation is held in position
by still other strands of things living.
In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline
of smouldering cities so gray and so vulgar,
as not to be satisfied with their own negativity
but needing to touch all the living as well.
Every breeze that blows kindly is one crystal breath
we exhale on the blue diamond heaven.
As gentle to touch as the hands of the healer.
As soft as farewells whispered over the coffin.
We're poisoned by venom with each breath we take,
from the brown sulphur chimney and the black highway snake.
Every dawn that breaks golden is held in suspension
like the yoke of the egg in albumen.
Where the birth and the death of unseen generations
are interdependent in vast orchestration
and painted in colors of tapestry thread.
When the dying are born and the living are dead.
Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment
that flows through the veins of your being.
Like a river of life flowing on since creation.
Approaching the sea with each new generation.
You're now just a stagnant and rancid disgrace
that is rapidly drowning the whole human race.
Every fish that swims silent, every bird that flies freely,
every doe that steps softly.
Every crisp leaf that falls, all the flowers that grow
on this colourful tapestry, somehow they know.
That if man is allowed to destroy all they need.
He will soon have to pay with his life, for his greed.
All seems very quiet on here. The fascists really must be finished just as John said.
Sean Parker-Perry and Jonathan Reynolds sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
First comes love.
Second comes a civil partnership.
Third comes the adopted baby in the baby carriage.
Hows Spain Seany boy? What are the room arangements?
Liam is heading for an asbo. Come on Liam - ease off or the courts await.
Looks like Sissy Pissy-Pants has started crying again. Come on Sean, have you got something better to come back with? Or are you going to moan to the police?
Can the police hand out ASBO's for stuff over the internet (Anti Social Bookmarking Order)? FUCK OFF they wont! You will have to do something better than that.
Lots of things on you Sean. Active Longdendale. Not registred on Companies House and not a registred charity. What are you up to Sean? Hmmmm... I will be doing increased snooping for your accounts. How would I go about getting your accounts for Active Longdendale.
I wonder who the list of donors could be? You have James Purnell, Daddy Pendry and Owen Oyston.
The Tameside Reporter said that your trip to Spain has prompted other Broadbottom residents to buy property in the area. I know you have bought somewhere abroad too Sean, I am assuming it is in Spain. I smell a rat. I just hope Broadbottom residents ain't buying dodgy time share from Pendry-Oyston!
Yes how has Active Longdendale got £8,000 from the lottery fund and not even a registred charity or business?
This reeks of Tameside Radio and their dodgy funding all over again.
And what is it with form filling Sean? Remember you are not even on the parliamentary political assistants register! And you have no company records for Active Longdendale. You are one dodgy fooker.
What fucks me off is that I am paying for cunts like you. Not only does my council tax pay you to swan off to Spain, but you are also "working" for Purnell which comes out of my income tax. So you get time off for council duties, which no one in the private sector would get without making the time up. Now you are taking a month off to go to Spain. What are the benefits of a "parliamentary political opperative"? 30 days holiday... Hmmm you have used all them up. You are one waste of space Sean.
I'M still waiting for that Sean Parker Perry to carry of is threat that he made over the phone "I'll come round there and do horrible things to you" Well anytime you're ready Sean.
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