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A wave of rain, sleet and snow moved down the UK, turning to ice in many places as temperatures dropped overnight.

The Met Office issued a severe weather warning for London and east and south-east England, with widespread icy roads and pavements. Meanwhile, people living in those areas could wake to one to two centimetres of snow.

"It's going to be a bitterly cold morning," said Dan Adamson, a forecaster at MeteoGroup UK, the weather division of the Press Association.

"It's been a few years since it's been as cold as this."

December 30 saw temperatures plummet to -13C in the Scottish Highlands, while on Saturday night Benson in Oxfordshire reached -9, he said.

Though temperatures dropped below zero in most places overnight, cloud cover meant it was not as cold as Saturday night.

The current cold snap is set to continue until the weekend when milder weather may finally arrive.

The chill prompted water company Severn Trent to appeal yesterday to its eight million customers across the Midlands and Wales to protect their water systems, after receiving reports that pipes were freezing even with heating on full blast.

Nikki Berry, a forecaster at MeteoGroup UK, said there were reports of snow falling overnight in many parts of the UK.