Mountain casualty
Rescue teams searching in blizzard conditions in north Wales for a cyclist found a body. The man was blown by high winds off the path from the 3,500ft summit of Snowdon. He is the fourth person to die in the mountains this week. In Scotland, a woman died on Cairn Gorm and two off-duty soldiers died near Glencoe.
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