Passenger numbers fell at Edinburgh Airport last month, following the closure of some UK airports as a result of poor winter weather.
One, admittedly very difficult, question is how to charge market prices for energy to those who can afford them, while protecting the really poor from freezing in winter.
And Charles Goodhart, a former MPC member, told Today presenter Evan Davis that higher commodity prices and a planned rise in the VAT rate "might make the inflation figures over the early winter pretty poor".
His England career looked to be hanging by a thread when he was dropped after a poor showing in Bangladesh in the winter.
The soil was poor and rocky, and in winter everything froze.
The outlook for the winter wheat crop is also poor, with India's main reservoirs, a source for irrigation canals, one-third below their seasonal average.
For example during the party's welfare review, should a One Nation Labour Party defend the principle of universal benefits - or would its concern for the poor cost, for example, better off pensioners their winter fuel allowance?
Not bad for a drink that was invented by poor Scots crofters trying to keep out the chill of a Highland winter.
Rather than intervening in the market to manipulate prices, the government could respond to a winter fuel crisis by giving all its heating-oil subsidies to poor consumers (though that would do nothing to win over other voters).
Poor weather and flooding in the UK in 2012 resulted in misshapen, shrunken and generally unattractive winter vegetables.
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At the bottom of the pyramid the 300, 000 employees who check the tracks and the level crossings were all assigned winter gear such as appropriate shoes and gloves, accessories that they are often too poor to buy on their own.
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