Mail Online - 3/26/13, Mark Duell
- Met Office warnings: North-East England; East England; East Scotland
- More than 3,000 people in Argyll and Isle of Arran were cut off overnight
- Ice and snow has damaged pylons and crippled the electricity network
- Elderly people in Northern Ireland are having trouble paying for energy
- Up to 10,000 animals buried beneath snow drifts in Northern Ireland
- NFU: Most farmers are relentlessly battling weather to protect income
- Ladbrokes offering 5/1 that it will be the coldest Easter weekend ever
- Also fears that ice on River Thames could disrupt Sunday’s Boat Race
Stuck: This extraordinary picture of a police van in the Isle of Man snow was sent in by MailOnline reader Nicholas Bradley.
Army helicopters could be mobilised to help drop food to starving animals stranded in the snow as desperate cash-strapped farmers fear for their livestock, it emerged today.
The Ministry of Defence was asked to help out in Northern Ireland, where food and medicine were already being delivered by helicopter to people cut off by the severe weather.
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