Off the wire
• 1st LD-Writethru: China calls on Malaysia to fulfil compensation to families of MH370 passengers  • British house price growth continues to moderate in January  • Feature: Mafia victims begin to speak out, even in mob's backyard  • Chinese premier calls on Malaysia to continue to exert all efforts to find MH370  • Sri Lanka's Tamil party rejects domestic probe into war allegations  • Record high of 2.7 bln tourists' overnight stays in EU in 2014  • Approval rating for Indonesian president drastically drops in first 100 days: survey  • 1st LD Writethru: Two killed in suicide bombing in east Afghanistan  • China Focus: Market reforms reshape China's economic landscape  • Chinese DM scorns WSJ on China-U.S. military exchanges  
You are here: 　 Home

Flights, trains suspended as snow hits northern England

Xinhua, January 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Flights and rail services were disrupted in some northern regions as heavy snow hit England Thursday, local media reported.

A spokesman for Manchester Airport said it had currently suspended all departures and arrivals for a short period. The airport was closed at around 9:30 a.m. local time (0930 GMT), while snowploughs were dispatched to clear the runways.

Meanwhile, local media reported that flights at Newcastle International Airport and Humberside Airport in Northern Lincolnshire were also delayed as snow continued to fall.

More than a dozen rail services between Manchester and York were cancelled, as were some main roads in Durham and Yorkshire.

Local media said hundreds of schools were closed in northern England.

The Met Office, the UK's weather service, issued yellow warnings of snow and ice on Thursday morning, saying sleet, snow, and hail would continue through the rest of Thursday and into Friday morning. Endit