In Pictures: Canal boats freeze as snowy weather wreaks havoc

Giant waves crash over Souter Lighthouse in South Shields (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Giant waves crash over Souter Lighthouse in South Shields (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Heavy snow has brought more travel disruption but also created some beautiful wintry scenes in areas across the UK.

Take a look at how Britons up and down the country have been coping in the cold.

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — Tourists take a selfie during a snow storm on the Embankment in central London (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — Karis Milligan, six, looks at icicles from the warmth of her grandparents’ house in Dunblane, Scotland (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — An engineer clears snow and ice from the tram lines along York Place in Edinburgh (Jane Barlow/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — People walk past snow-covered beach huts on Bournemouth beach (Steve Parsons/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — David Webb (left) and his wife Louise Bath, from Edinburgh, ski around St Margaret’s Loch in Holyrood Park (Jane Barlow/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — Landlord Angus Wharton clears snow outside the Ye Olde Black Ladd pub in Shaw, Greater Manchester Danny Lawson(/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — The Severn Bridge is empty of cars and down to one lane in both directions (Ben Birchall/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — A hungry fieldfare tucks into an apple in a garden near Farnham, Surrey (David Wilcock/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — Pedestrians in St George’s Park, Bristol, where a blanket of snow covered the city overnight (Ben Birchall/PA )

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — A cyclist rides over an empty, but fully open, Clifton Suspension Bridge (Ben Birchall/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — A cyclist pushes his bicycle in snow through Bristol (Ben Birchall/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — A woman man walks along a snow-covered road in Drumcondra, Dublin as the severe weather continues (Brian Lawless/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — Canal boats are frozen into position in Birmingham’s canal system (Simon Cooper/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — A man clears snow near Blackstone Edge in the Pennines (Danny Lawson/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — Adam Suthers digs out a car stuck in the snow in Ripponden, Yorkshire (Danny Lawson/PA)

Winter weather March 2nd 2018 — Swans on the Royal Canal in Drumcondra, Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA)

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