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The big freeze: why we can all start dreaming of a white easter

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20051218
Author:Geoffrey Lean

It was Christmas morning and Scrooge stood on the streets of London, where black house fronts stood out against 'the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs'.

Clutching the Ghost of Christmas Present, he watched 'jovial' Londoners shovelling the snow from the roofs and pavements, 'and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball'. Church bells rang, and 'there was an air of cheerfulness abroad'.

Charles Dickens's Yuletide picture is still definitive, etched on to countless cards and advent calendars more than 150 years since A Christmas Carol was written. Yet it is but a ghost of ...

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