The UK was today plunged into a freezing snap as an Arctic weather front swept in, blanketing parts of Scotland and northern England in snow.

TWO Lithuanian men were arrested yesterday over the murder of a woman whose severed head was found in a plastic bag on a Scottish beach.

There is snow falling across some parts of Britain this morning but there will be barely a flake in other areas today.

WITH Peter Lawrie and Darren Clarke at the top of the leaderboard alongside David Howell on nine under at the halfway stage, and Gary Murphy only one shot off the pace, the Irish challenge for the huge money at stake in the Dunhill Links Championship could hardly be better positioned.