Britain is heading for a cold snap next week with temperatures set to dip below freezing in parts of the country.

Conditions are set to plunge from Monday, with snow and ice possible in areas, the Met Office has forecast.

The ‘notable change’ in the weather comes after much of the UK and Ireland was battered with torrential rain and gusts by Storm Claudia.

A cold weather warning has been issued by the UK Health Security Agency for the Midlands, North West and North East England from Monday and will remain in place until 8am on Friday.

A minimum temperature of -7C was recorded overnight in Tulloch Bridge, Scotland, marking the coldest night in the UK since last March.

In other parts, warmer wetter conditions will be soon replaced by a ‘cold northerly flow’ from the Arctic, meteorologis

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