Heavy snow in UK, many flights cancelled

London, February 5^th

  Due to  heavy snowfall and severe weather warnings, London’s Heathrow Airport cancelled 30 per cent of flights that were scheduled to take off on Sunday.The world’s busiest international passenger airport said that up to 10 centimetres of snow were expected to fall which would cause major disturbance at the west London airport without reductions to the flight schedule  according to reports ..Road traffic was also disrupted since last evening as snow hit southern Scotland and parts of Wales before moving south-east through England.Over 10,000 tonnes of salt were being spread on the capital’s roads to facilitate movement.