Parts of the north of England awoke to scenes right out of the front of a Christmas card after snow fell overnight.
In County Durham, snow-crusted fields were bisected in black by newly ploughed roads, while the sunrise over Deepdale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park lent the frosty scenes a warming glow.
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