In the headlines
It’s “Arctic Monday”, says MailOnline, after heavy overnight snowfall wrought havoc on Britain’s roads, railways and runways. Dozens of trains and flights have been cancelled, and hundreds of schools closed. The National Grid has fired up two coal power stations to cope with energy demand. American scientists have made a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion, says the FT. A US government laboratory in California used the world’s biggest laser to achieve “net energy gain” in a fusion reaction, producing 20% more energy than was put in. It raises the prospect of “limitless, zero-carbon power” – if the experiment can be replicated and scaled up. England’s footballers aren’t coming home completely empty-handed, says the Daily Star: Manchester City stars John Stones and Kyle Walker are adopting a stray cat called Dave that they befriended at the team hotel in Qatar. “Kit’s coming home.”