1.   Arctic weather across continental Europe has claimed dozens of lives and driven the price of refined heating fuel higher.

2.   Harsh Arctic weather has now forced the divers to suspend their efforts to recover more bodies from the wreck.

3.   The project is aimed at deciphering the substantial changes in arctic weather, ocean currents and ice in recent decades.

4.   But no return to arctic weather has yet been forecast.

5.   The volatile Arctic weather has calmed down over the last few days and is forecast to remain good, assuaging fears that rough seas might thwart the lifting.

6.   As the Arctic weather tightened its grip, motorists were warned not to travel unless they really had to and police reported precarious conditions on motorways.

7.   British football faced a growing backlog of matches as arctic weather conditions returned to decimate sporting schedules on Tuesday.