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Spring off to a frosty start with snow falling across the UK

Source: PA Media

The first weekend of spring has seen snow falling across parts of the UK and the Met Office issuing weather warnings.

Temperatures in the west of the UK were narrowly above freezing on Friday night and the Met Office said four to five centimetres of snow fell around Bristol.

Yellow warnings were in, and parts of , and a Met Office forecaster said this was in part to flag to the emergency services and the public that snow was predicted where major transport routes, the M4 and M5, meet.

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