AFTER FLOODS BRACE FOR ICE AND SNOW

Health alerts as big freeze strikes

- PAUL BYRNE, DAN WARBURTON

BRITAIN is braced for a bitter icy blast after last week's deluge as an amber cold health alert is issued for large parts of the country.

Snow and ice are forecast early this week as temperatures plummet.

It comes as many communities are still coping with the severe floods that followed Storm Henk.

And now health chiefs and the Met Office predict that wintery conditions will bring more misery.