By Jennifer Carlile, msnbc.com reporter
London on a winter’s day evokes images out of a Dickens novel – quaint and covered in snow – which makes one wonder how a few inches of the white stuff could bring this world-class city of 8 million to a standstill more than 150 years after the author penned “A Christmas [...]
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By Chris Hampson, NBC News Director of International News LONDON – And now some really big breaking news from the U.K.: It’s snowing.
Not the sort of chill-you-to-the-bones white stuff that freezes thermometers across whole swathes of the United States, where the snow comes to the eaves and you have to chisel your way out [...]
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