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To: maceng2 who wrote (682)	12/25/2004 11:42:22 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 1417

Punters celebrate White Christmas ananova.com [<<we estimate it has cost us over £500,000>> The bookies will do OK out of this as it attracts more biz. Crocodile tears are being shed here, not real ones -g-.. pb] Bookies are counting the cost of a white Christmas which brought snow to much of the country for the first time in years. The industry expects to pay out hundreds of thousands of pounds after Northern Ireland, Scotland, north Wales and parts of north west England were covered in several centimetres of snow earlier today. But the punters' winnings could have been even higher if London had received a dusting. The first White Christmas since 2001 also brought treacherous conditions on the roads and prompted warnings from motoring organisations. PA WeatherCentre forecaster Nikki Robertson said 4cm of snow was recorded at Belfast Airport and other areas may have received heavier snowfalls. She added: "There's almost no chance of getting any snow in London. If there are any flakes it will be after midnight." Between 1971 and 1992 there was only one year - 1980 - when widespread sleet and snow fell across the UK on Christmas Day, whereas in the years 1993 to 2003 it happened five times. Ladbrokes spokesman Warren Lush said: "We're not too frosty about the prospect of paying out as it is the first time we have done so since 2001. This said, we estimate it has cost us over £500,000 as the record gamble started with a flurry and turned into an avalanche." Meanwhile, the chilly weather failed to put off hundreds of swimmers who braved the cold to take part in festive dips around the country. A 40th anniversary annual charity swim in the seaside town of Porthcawl in south Wales drew its biggest turn-out yet with about 450 swimmers of all ages running into the sea for a quick dunking. Around 40 swimmers raced down Brighton's pebble beach and dived into the waters of the English Channel, while hardy swimmers in Ireland plunged into the Irish Sea at a bathing area in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.

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