Snow and big freeze cling to Britain

The scene as reflected by sculptor Anish Kapoor's Sky Mirror outside Nottingham Playhouse Photograph: Neil Squires/PA

A motorist drives through heavy snow in Manchester Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

A parks police officer takes photographs of a snowman in Richmond Park in south-west London Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

A woman scrapes ice off her car near Ashford in Kent Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

A man walks his dogs through the snow in Bramall Park near Stockport, Greater Manchester Photograph: Andrew Yates/AFP/Getty Images

A man feeds the ducks and geese in Bramall Park Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

A sheep in the snow near Ashford in Kent Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Snow in Eastbourne, East Sussex Photograph: Tom Pugh/PA

A woman in Bramall Park in Stockport, Greater Manchester Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Slow-moving traffic on the M80 motorway near Stirling in Scotland Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Cars abandoned in Reigate, Surrey, on Wednesday Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

A gritting lorry on the M80 motorway near Stirling Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Commuters at Beckenham Junction in south-east London
Photograph: Elizabeth Barrett/PA

Lorries parked on the hard shoulder of the M25 motorway in Reigate, Surrey Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA