The severe weather conditions are still having an impact across many parts of Northern Ireland.
BBC: Deep snow still lying in some areas of Northern Ireland
The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant has been shut down because of severe weather conditions.
BBC: Sellafield shutdown: Severe weather closes nuclear site
Royal Mail said staff "pulled out all the stops" but the continuing severe weather conditions were to blame.
The severe weather conditions are set to continue for the rest of Friday with freezing temperatures to remain over the weekend.
All 14 midweek matches in the Scottish Cup and Scottish Football League have been postponed due to the severe weather conditions.
"Severe weather conditions overnight in Northern France and Belgium have resulted in sections of the high speed line being closed, " Eurostar said.
Coventry University said exams which it cancelled on Friday, due to the severe weather conditions, had been rescheduled to Wednesday 23 January.
"Severe weather conditions overnight in Northern France and Belgium have led to the closure of the high speed line, " a notice on the company's website said.
The severe weather conditions are still having an impact across many parts of Northern Ireland, where up to 10, 000 animals may have been entombed in snow drifts.
ScotRail announced that a reduced timetable would operate on the Edinburgh-Glasgow Queen Street line and on selected routes in and out of Glasgow Central because of the severe weather conditions.
The force said the severe weather conditions were making driving hazardous in this area and there was no parking for drivers who are being turned away from the Channel Tunnel.
But it also has to look at coping with more severe weather conditions as well as the higher numbers of vulnerable and elderly people living alone, who are more at risk from house fires.
"My Department, the Health and Social Care Board, the Public Health Agency and the trusts have been in daily contact since mid-December to ensure an effective coordinated response to the pressures arising from the severe weather conditions, " he said.
"In light of the severe weather conditions across Scotland, which are forecast to continue for some time, all Clydesdale Bank Premier League games have been postponed this weekend, Saturday 4 December, " said the SPL in a statement on Wednesday.
Brewster, who grew up during the Vince Lombardi era of the Packers in the Milwaukee area, keeps an "NFL Weather Hall of Fame" on his private Web site, a list of games played in severe cold and other bizarre weather conditions.
The MPs heard from the Met Office that the decline in sea ice is part of a long-term trend, although this year's very severe melt was likely to have been accelerated by local weather conditions.
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