We want to bring them to Hampden in the middle of winter and hope it is a muddy pitch.

BBC: Fixtures first test for Scotland manager Craig Levein

Mr Justice MacDuff said Mr Winter had no hope of defending the damages claims against 13 claimants but left it open for him to argue that Mr Wembridge was partly at fault.

BBC: Marlie Farm fireworks blast widows win right to damages

"Part of the investment that Russia has made is not only what the world will see in Russia, but also they're building a winter paradise that they hope to showcase through the Olympic broadcast and attract tourism in the future, " says 2010 Vancouver champion Bill Demong, who competed at a Nordic combined skiing test event in Sochi last weekend.

CNN: February 8, 2013 -- Updated 1159 GMT (1959 HKT)

We better hope we have a mild winter and people stay healthy - which is a big concern.

BBC: Jersey hospital 'may not cope' with pandemic

Sometime around when Satan starts looking for his winter woollies I expect that will be but a man can hope, eh?

FORBES: The European Union Will Not Subsidise Broadband. Hurrah!

For years the Conservatives used the Winter of Discontent to warn voters not to trust Labour again. they hope to do the same with debt, the banks and that obscure rate few of us understand, called LIBOR.

BBC: Barclays Banks - A Whitehall whodunit

It will be killed beyond reasonable hope of resurrection not by heat but by the encroaching cold of winter.

ECONOMIST: Space exploration

"We're quite optimistic about the progression of the operation and if everything goes as planned we hope most of the work will be over before the start of the winter season, " said Rima Tarabay, Vice-President of Bahr Loubnan.

CNN: Lebanon counts the cost of conflict