Eurostar has cancelled all its services for the remainder of the day because of the closure of the high-speed line in France and Belgium due to snow.

BBC: Kent snow and ice causes disruption

Eurostar cancelled some services and warned passengers to expect delays of up to an hour as speed restrictions were imposed as a result of snow and ice.

BBC: Snow set to hit south-west and north-east England

Via the suite of onboard sensors the HUD, originally designed for snow sports, has been customized to display glide ratio, speed and altitude via a micro LCD screen sitting unobtrusively inside the pilot's goggle.

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In Moscow, the enterprise of scraping the snow off the streets and pavements, forming it into snow hillocks, carting it off in 6, 000-odd snow vehicles for dumping or melting, and finally zapping it with chemicals to speed the thaw is vast and costly (which helps to explain why Yuri Luzhkov, the city's mayor, threatened last year to fine meteorologists who make wrong forecasts).

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Snow between Norwich and Ely caused many Greater Anglia trains to run at a reduced speed for much of Tuesday, causing delays.

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To return to the matter of stopping: The Stealth-X designers envision riders controlling their speed by carving like a downhill skier and stopping by kicking the sled sideways in a skilike spray of snow.

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