Meanwhile, Welsh Water has urged customers to make sure their pipes are protected from freezing in the cold weather.
The detour officially started March 1, but the guests of honor had no interest in traveling in the cold weather.
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When demand shot up in the cold weather, firms could not import enough gas and had almost nowhere to store it anyway.
Dozens of animals have perished in the cold weather but EU regulations mean instead of burying them farmers are having to pay firms to pick up the dead stock.
The feedback has also led to warmer wards in the cold weather, an end to noisy vacuum cleaning first thing in the morning, and better access to TV remote controls.
Although the assembly government can not control fuel prices or income levels, which also directly affect fuel poverty, the minister confirmed that it was offering energy efficiency advice, supporting financially through schemes such as Arbed and urging people to keep warm in the cold weather.
Hi-Call will be out in the beginning of October, just in time for the cold weather.
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South Carolina Republicans went to the polls in drab, cold weather, with snow in the state's upper regions, where many of the state's more conservative, evangelical Christian voters live.
The match in the Highlands should beat the cold weather after volunteers helped remove snow from the pitch, while Partick Thistle, like Inverness, benefit from undersoil heating.
There are also thousands of poor families living under the open skies in cold weather here at the sprawling festival grounds in the northern city of Allahabad.
Bulls says the March fall in sales was an anomaly, the result of an unseasonable cold weather that kept shoppers in much of the country from buying spring clothes and seasonal merchandise.
After the severe weather, a cold-weather system could bring snow and freezing rain to the Midwest, beginning Wednesday, and the threat of extremely cold weather in the northern Plains states and Upper Midwest, particularly on Thursday.
In March, the duchess braved the cold snowy weather to visit a scout camp in the Lake District where she helped out at an activity centre.
Also, the unseasonably cold and rainy weather in the Phoenix area forced all but one of the six first round Pool D games to be played under the retractable roof at Chase Field.
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But in recent years the health service has got much better at planning for the rise in patients that cold weather inevitably brings.
The severe cold weather in Washington DC is turning people off from attending the presidential inauguration.
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Red kites in Oxfordshire are laying their eggs "unusually late" due to the unseasonably cold weather in March, a conservation group said.
When asked about weather predictions in the coming months Prof Slingo said the cold weather could continue into the middle of April.
Many of us are lucky enough to recall with pleasure the Christmases of our childhood: the gifts left by the chimney for Father Christmas, carols sung in biting cold weather, nativity plays, the warm glow we felt as Mother carried in the flaming Christmas pudding decorated with holly.
Mr Maharaj said there were still some South Africans who "sit with their dogs in front in a van or truck with a worker at the back in pouring rain or extremely cold weather".
And he was never told to plug the car in overnight in cold weather, despite repeated contact with Tesla.
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Last week, Centrica, the owner of British Gas, announced that it had seen UK residential gas usage increase by 18% in the first four months of 2013 due to the prolonged cold weather.
At least 14 in the county council's area have been partially or totally closed following the cold weather, with two in Stoke-on-Trent also affected.
Although no longer justified, the diesel's reputation for being slow, smelly, noisy, unreliable and difficult to start in cold weather has lingered since the 1980s, when Detroit rushed out half-baked designs in response to the oil crisis.
The only challenge is the weather, which can get cold in some places.
Both retailers and small businesses say the exceptionally cold weather in March damaged business activity.
With more cold weather expected in the next week people should not have to worry about turning up the heating when temperatures plummet.
But some countries felt the effects immediately, in bitterly cold weather.
Energy supplier SSE has reported a rise in annual profits on the back of cold weather, despite recent disruption to services and a fine from regulators.
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