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Did you attend the annual Ice Sculpting Festival at Canary Wharf?

Earlier in the week, we told you about Ice Music. Today: Ice Sculpting. For those of you who watched Channel 4′s Kirsty and Phil hacking away at blocks of ice for their perfect New Year’s Eve party with a twinge of envy, here’s your chance to have a go!

Looking for something different to kick off your cultural calendar for 2011? An Ice Music Concert at Somerset House might be just the thing.

The Tube network called in sick again today, with another mid-tunnel breakdown. A Victoria Line train got all stroppy between Seven Sisters and Finsbury Park leading to a two-hour wait for 400 passengers followed by a hike along the tracks. Disruption was, needless to say, …

By DeanN Frozen ponds and waterways have proved irresistible for some, sparking pleas from the authorities for people not to venture out on ice, however thick it looks. But the east end would be one Jack Russell poorer if Victoria Park cafe worker, Duncan McGonigle, …

The roads are pretty much clear but there’s still ice on the pavements, which is leading to nearly twice as many fall-related calls as usual to the London Ambulance Service. First hand experience tells us hospitals are cancelling regular appointments to deal with the influx …

Image / Photomish Dan Our barometric soothsayers aren’t taking any chances: “severe” weather conditions are forecast for the next few days, with the Met office issuing a stark warning that up to 40cm of snow could fall in London and the southeast this evening and …

Photo / DeanN Not that you needed further proof that it’s a little on the nippy side out there, but it’s so cold that the fountains in Trafalgar Square have frozen over, as this pic from Monday night shows. If those 19th century numpties hadn’t …

Based on previous experience with sub-zero conditions, you might expect London’s transport network to be struggling. Yet reports suggest that most services are doing just fine, and are no more delayed than normal. Road transport is perhaps in most jeopardy, as the continued freeze causes …

Image courtesy of Phillie Casablanca from the Londonist Flickr pool Get out the birch twigs and the cat-o-nine-tails – after yesterday’s (and today’s) snow chaos and general city-wide collapse, it seems to be time to stop making snowmen and start the recriminations and flagellations. So …