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A warning has been issued by health chiefs ahead of a cold snap set to hit the region next week.

Greater Manchester was among the areas of the country battered by strong winds and heavy rain brought by Storm Claudia on Friday and Saturday.

And in a further shift of conditions, temperatures are now set to plummet starting tomorrow (Monday, November 17).

Snow and ice are possible after what has been a spell of above-average temperatures, the forecaster said.

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The Met Office said that Sunday night (November 16) was the coldest in the UK since March 20 this year. The mercury dropped to minus seven degrees Celsius in Tulloch Bridge, Scotland.

The forecaster's deputy chief meteorologist, Dan Holley, said: “As Storm

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