Now winter is here.

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"The winter here is just as cold as in Shropshire where I used to live, sometimes colder, " Mr Marlow told the BBC News website.

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The food of the London winter is the pie and here, they are homemade, to order, by a delightful young chef who has ransomed everything to make this work.

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Here, in this Ottawa winter, it is dismayingly easy to recall claims that Canada's capital city is the coldest after Ulan Bator.

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It is hot in here, the air-conditioning not yet on, the heat remembering winter.

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Menyoli's tale is just one of many, too numerous to list comprehensively here, that have shown the Winter Olympics to be a tournament where Africa has defied the odds to have a presence.

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