After a white Christmas for some, many people headed out for sea dips, sledging in the snow and gloomy winter walks

Boxing Day swimmers braved the cold weather to take their traditional dip after parts of England and Scotland woke up to snow on Sunday.

Wintry weather that was forecast to produce blizzard-like conditions across the English-Scottish border gave way to rain, and the Environment Agency put flood warnings in place in North Yorkshire and Devon.

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