Is snow bringing UK to a halt?
Updated on 07 January 2010
As the effort to keep Britain moving begins to run out of steam, salt and even gas, Jane Dodge asks if the government has moved fast enough.
Forecasters are talking of "nightmare" weather, as temperatures below freezing are turning roads into ice, making conditions treacherous and leaving thousands of homes without power.
More severe weather warnings are in force tonight and with many councils now rationing their salt supplies, the government insisted it was doing "everything possible" to keep roads open.
The cold weather continues to disrupt transport. On the roads, the A31 in Dorset has been closed and trains are also still suffering.
There are cancellations from London to Birmingham and Manchester. Services from Brockhurst to Lymington and Ascot to Guilford are suspended, as are trains between Cheltenham and Bristol.
Services between York and Newcastle are also suspended today and tomorrow and in Scotland services have been cancelled out of Glasgow to Edinburgh and Milngavie and between Dyce and Elgin.
After a Eurostar train broke down today the company announced it is cancelling all late evening and early morning trains until Sunday.
At least 19 networks are reporting severe delays across the country. Turmoil at the airports also continues with delays and cancellations at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Cardiff, and Glasgow.
And once again drivers are warned not to venture out unless it is essential.
A volunteer force of Red Cross drivers has been tackling the icy roads of Worcestershire today commandeering 4x4 vehicles to reach the places normal ambulances cannot get to.
They have been picking up patients and ferrying staff to hospitals in other words, vital work. But should that not be up to local councils?
Our Midlands reporter Jane Deith has been in the Worcestershire town of Evesham, where the volunteer spirit is very much alive.
From the Midlands to the Borders where one town has been virtually cut off by the freezing weather. There is no grit, no school and for hundreds of people no chance of getting to work.
Roads into the Scottish borders town of Hawick are too treacherous to negotiate. But luckily the local community has rallied round.
Our correspondent Nick Martin managed to reach Hawick last night and he has been finding out how the town's coping with the snow.
Jon Snow interviewed secretary of state for transport, Lord Andrew Adonis.
