Eleven people were admitted to York District Hospital today after slipping on ice while walking in the city.

Staff at the hospital said a majority of the casualties, who were all admitted within a space of three-and-a-half hours, were being treated for breaks and sprains.

City of York Council gritters were working round the clock at the weekend gritting the main roads after York saw its first snow of winter on Saturday.

Milder and wetter weather is forecast for this week.

A spokesman at the Meteorological Office's Leeds Weather Centre said: "We have a ridge of high pressure over us at the moment. But a warm front, currently over Ireland, will run through overnight and bring with it west or south-westerly winds off the Atlantic. More changeable, but milder and brighter weather will be coming in from the west."

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