Britain is set to shiver from an Arctic blast with four inches of snow and temperatures as low as minus 10C.
Plunging temperatures have been blamed for dozens of deaths across Europe as winter takes its toll.
And the cold snap is set to make its way to Britain with single digit temperatures and frosts forecast before snow.
A Met Office forecaster said: 'Cold air will move across the UK from the north towards the weekend when we will be in a Polar maritime airmass .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk