Stunning images capture beauty of cold snap

These stunning images of last Wednesday’s hoar frost were captured in Aldermaston near the border with Tadley by Newbury Weekly News reader David Canning.
He said: “What a beautiful morning it was.”
Hoar frost - also called radiation frost - refers to the white ice crystals, loosely deposited on the ground or exposed objects, that form on cold clear nights when heat losses into the open skies cause objects to become colder than the surrounding air.
Meanwhile the thermometer was due to drop even further tonight with temperatures of minus two were forecast as freezing winds sweep in from Siberia in an icy blast dubbed ‘the beast from the east.’