NSFW If you think it's a bit nippy now in good old Blighty, you'd better get your thermal undies warming on the radiator because the worst is yet to come, according (http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/63774/New-Year-s-freeze/) to the Daily Star:

(http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/63774/New-Year-s-freeze/)

We're obliged to the paper for the chilling warning, and for providing photographic evidence of just what happens when you decide to whip out your jubs in weather cold enough to freeze the airbags off a brassy Bulgarian. ®

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