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Britain colder than Canada: More sleet due as temperatures tumble to -18c

If you thought the start of March would herald the return of that large, warm yellow object in the sky, think again.

Forecasters say the wintry weatherwhich has cast a miserable spell over Britain since December willcontinue for at least another two weeks.

Four walkers were hit by anavalanche in a remote part of the Lake District yesterday. The partygot into difficulties as they made their way up St Sunday Crag inPatterdale, which has seen heavy snowfall for the past two days.

Grounded: Flights were cancelled at Luton Airport

Flooded: Primrose Hill park in north west London was swamped after heavy rain

Two of the group were airlifted to hospital in Carlisle while the other two were treated at the scene.

Up to three inches of snow fellacross Wales, central England and East Anglia. Rain and sleet causedflooding in parts of London, the South East and South West. More...Gridlock UK: Potholes and roadworks mean a nightmare for driversSledger killed after makeshift toboggan hit by car is named by policeBaffled police log six incidents of snowball fights as "serious violent crimes" - the same category as murderWalkers rescued after being swept away by avalanche in Lake District

Met Office spokesman Dave Elliottsaid: "It looks like this weather is going to stay over the weekend andinto the week after - still very cold with overnight frosts and risksof further snowfall."

Passengers flying in and out ofLuton airport were severely delayed by snow in Bedfordshire whichforced bosses to close the runway.

Soaked: Rain and sleet caused flooding in Horndean, Hampshire

Four flights were cancelled and four diverted to other airports as staff struggled to clear the snow off the runway.

Treacherous driving conditions onmany of Britain"s major roads caused a series of accidents as millionsof parents battled to get their children to school on their first dayback after the half term break.

The wintry conditions claimed a lifeon Sunday as a young father was killed and his cousin seriously injuredwhen their homemade toboggan was hit by a car.

Cold comfort: Lambs in Catterick, North Yorkshire, try to keep warm

Weather-worn: A child battles against the wind and snow in Cambridge

Commuters travelling by train were hit by delays caused by overrunning weekend engineering work.Buses replaced trains on East Midlands Trains" services between Boston and Grantham in Lincolnshire and on the First TransPennine Express service between Scunthorpe and Cleethorpes.

Overrunning works also delayed services in the Oxford area and on East Coast services through Hitchin in Hertfordshire.

THREE-DAY FORECAST

TODAYSouth: Heavy rain, occasional sleet. Min -2c (28f) Max 6c (43f)North: Wintry showers, some sunshine. Min -3 (27f) Max 3c (37f)TOMORROWSouth: Heavy rain showers. Min 2c (36f) Max 9c (48f)North: Rain and snow. Min -2c (28f) Max 4c (39f)THURSDAYSouth: Cloud and rain. Min 3c (37f) Max 8c (46f)North: Rain and sleet. Min 0c (32f) Max 5c (41f)

Details of the incidents emerged as forecasters said Britain had seen its coldest winter for more than 30 years.

Weather forecaster MeteoGroup said the provisional average winter temperature of 2.4c (36.3f) in England was the lowest since 1978-9. There is one week left of the winter season to go.

Spokesman Michael Dukes said: "It has been a remarkable winter. For anyone under 30 this has been the worst winter of their lifetime and there is more snow to come."

Met Office spokesman Dave Elliott said: "It looks like this weather is going to stay over the weekend and into the week after - still very cold with overnight frosts and risks of further snowfall."

Motorists were warned to take extra care after the Met Office issued a widespread warning of ice across the North West, the North East, Yorkshire, the Midlands, the East and the whole of the South of England, including London.

Heavy rain warnings were issued for the East, South West, London and the South East.

Commuters faced a depressingly familiar start to the week yesterday as snow and heavy rain caused widespread disruption.

Up to three inches of snow fell across Wales, Central England and East Anglia, while rain and sleet caused flooding in parts of London, the South East and South West.

Universitys residence of horrors helps to sight debate students

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From the outward it is an unexceptional 1920s red section house. Inside there is a stage of horror. In the front room a womans physique has a blade in her chest. Next doorway in the kitchen an additional womans physique lies in a pool of gore.

In a seminar at the at the back of of the residence a man is slumped over a workbench, spatters of red red red red blood on the window. A ball bat in the dilemma suggests his genocide was not an accident.Upstairs in a room the plant of a gangland execution is scored equally to a chair, a full of red red red blood tee-shirt pressed in his mouth. Broken teeth and a span of pliers on the building next to him infer he was tortured prior to being shot in the head.

Murder takes place in this residence each day. But the bodies are dummies and the red red red red blood is theatrical. It is the University of Glamorgans new debate crime stage simulator and Professor Bernard Knight House has been non-stop on the Pontypridd campus by the man it is declared after.

For 40 years Professor Knight attended each aroused genocide in South Wales as the informal Home Office pathologist. Since timid he has turn a successful crime novelist.

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Tony Berry, head of the universitys chemistry and debate scholarship department, said: We have all from a drink hall where there are bottlings, a bank thats been attacked and a dim alley where a rape has taken place.

Glamorgan was the initial university in Britain to suggest a grade in debate science. It is still the usually one with a finish crime encampment where students are left to square together the story from justification planted by lecturers. The university additionally offers the countrys usually march in debate dentistry.

Students wear the protecting white suits and face masks informed from radio headlines reports but not mostly seen in radio investigator dramas. They are taught how to proceed the stage utilizing feet plates similar to on foot on upturned cosmetic tubs to equivocate unfortunate the evidence. They lift fingerprints and accumulate red red red red blood samples and have use of electrostatic dust to find footprints invisible to the exposed eye.

The stage in the front room is a made at home murder. The dull drink bottles on the floor, the personification cards on the coffee list and cigarette butts in the ashtray could all produce critical clues. Students are taught how to code and accumulate theevidence for after research in the laboratory. Some is viewable to the exposed eye, similar to the full of red red red blood foot imitation on the building that can be identified from a database of footwear. Others are not, such as the residence pet hairs at the back of the lounge that might infer matching to those on the suspect"s clothing.

There are 150 students on the debate scholarship course, and a serve 70 receiving debate chemistry and debate biology. Only about fifteen per cent of them will stick on the police. Many will find jobs with debate laboratories.

In the universitys new eleven million formidable of labs and investigate rooms, students sense how to code the place a blow was struck from the splatter of red red red red blood drops on a wall. They can code the have of a car from a splinter of paint and the code of bottled drink from a little shard of glass.

South Wales Police additionally sends the officers to the university for training. After the picturesque crime scenes in the residence of horrors they are ready to understanding with roughly anything.

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Aero Inventory to face rascal probe

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THE Serious Fraud Office has started a grave review in to the fall of Aero Inventory, the aircraft components group.

The AIM-listed company, that granted airlines with all from drinks trolleys to air-conditioning filters, was value 140m when it filed for administration department department late last year.

A comparison source pronounced the SFO had perceived a series of allegations per the association and believed there was enough report to inspect either there had been any wrongdoing.

We will be questioning everything, he said. We will try to find out what happened and how it happened.

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Aeros shares were dangling last Oct after accounting errors were detected in a Canadian contract. The companys commercial operation indication was to buy the tools groups of airlines, together with Australias Qantas and All Nippon Airways in Japan, and sell behind the register to them over time.

It reported sales of 440m in 2008 but ran out of money last year and was incompetent to secure an additional 50m from the banks.

Shareholders, together with Gartmore, HSBC and Lansdowne Partners, are doubtful to embrace anything, according to KPMG, the administrator.

The arch senior physical education instructor was Rupert Lewin, who assimilated the Hertfordshire-based commercial operation in 1994. He and Hugh Bevan, financial director, quiescent prior to long prior to it went in to administration.

Lewin set up his own Porsche racing team, that perceived 200,000 in corporate liberality fees from Aero in between 2004 and 2007. Sarah Bennett-Baggs, the racing motorist and radio personality, was commissioned as the group manager.

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Ex-Communications Minister joins Alcatel-Lucent

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Lord Carter of Barnes, the former Communications Minister and media regulator, has returned to the in isolation zone in a newly combined purpose at Alcatel-Lucent, the French telecom apparatus maker.

The peer, who left the Government last June, will turn arch marketing, plan and information exchnage military officer at the association and will lay on the government committee, one turn next the house of directors.

His trainer will be Ben Verwaayen, the former BT arch senior manager who right away runs Alcatel-Lucent.

The former Stephen Carter became Gordon Brown"s arch of plan and principal confidant from Jan 2008 and in Oct that year was done a counterpart to concede him to offer as a youth apportion or Under-Secretary of State for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting.

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He voiced last year that he would give up after the announcement of his Digital Britain report, only eighteen months in to his domestic career.

Lord Carter was formerly arch senior manager of Brunswick, the City PR organisation that he assimilated after resigning as arch senior manager of Ofcom, the communications regulator.

Terry Smith armed pirate incited TV crime expert is jailed

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A man who claimed to have incited his behind on crime and wrote a book about his former hold up as an armed pirate has been locked up for robbing security guards stuffing money machines.

Terry Smith, 51, billed himself as a "robbologist", advising on TV crime programmes, and his book The Art of Armed Robbery was promoted as the loyal story of Britains majority barbarous armed robber, who had motionless to remodel for the consequence of himself and his immature family.

Yesterday he was found guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court of conspiring to rob and conspiring to retain firearms with vigilant to rob.

The charge pronounced that Smith and his hermit Len, 52, had been concerned in attacks on guards delivering money to machines in East London and Essex in between 2006 and 2008.

Len was found not guilty of the charges.

Detectives estimated that �250,000 was stolen. During one raid, in Rayleigh, a commuter, Adam Mapleson, was shot and injured.

Terry Smith, of Canvey Island, Essex, was arrested after an review by the British Transport Police. He told them that he was right away a reformed character. Detectives pronounced that Smith had appeared on Channel 4, the BBC and acted as a technical confidant on a film.

Yesterday Smith was since an indistinct jail sentence, the decider observant that he should offer twelve years prior to being deliberate for parole.

Later, Detective Superintendent Michael Field, who had headed the inquiry, pronounced that Terry Smiths self-assurance was welcome: This is a man who has formerly touted himself to the media and to the open as a reformed career rapist who had seen the light, Mr Field.

What we right away know is that he is anything but reformed. He is a violent, asocial particular with no courtesy for the law who was rebuilt to go to frightening ends to safeguard his final were met.

Last year at a hearing at Chelmsford Crown Court Brian Wall was since an indistinct judgment after being found guilty of causing Mr Mapleson disgusting corporeal mistreat with intent. Wall was additionally convicted of swindling to retain firearms with vigilant to dedicate an corruption and swindling to rob. He had philosophy for spoliation dating behind to 1978, the justice was told. Mr Mapleson was hire with his hands up when Wall non-stop fire, the justice was told. Mr Mapleson, who was twenty-four when he was shot, told the justice he attempted to assistance a security ensure after she was attacked whilst stuffing a money appurtenance outward Rayleigh railway hire in 2007.

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