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Ice skaters glide over frozen Cambridgeshire Fens
Watch as people take to the ice to skate on a frozen flooded field in Upware, Cambridgeshire, on Thursday 18 January.
The Cambridgeshire Fens were the birthplace of British speed skating and require four nights of frost, with a temperature of -4C or colder and little or no thawing during the days in between, to make ice strong enough to skate on.
Fen skating takes place when a meadow floods and then freezes over, so the ice is very shallow, in some places just a few centimetres.
Much of the UK endured temperatures below freezing overnight.
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