Balmoral Castle has been covered in snow and ice as Scotland faces the brunt of the cold snap on Friday.
Temperatures reached as low as minus 6C at Tulloch Bridge on Thursday night.
The Met Office issued an amber alert for central-north Scotland and yellow warnings across the UK ahead of Storm Bert, which is set to arrive on Saturday and bring “heavy rain, strong winds and disruptive snow to parts of the UK through the weekend”.
Milk is left in the snow at the entrance to Balmoral Castle (Jane Barlow/PA)
Sunrise over the partially frozen River Dee (Jane Barlow/PA)
Ryan Phillips walks Arty the Siberian husky in the snowy grounds of Balmoral (Jane Barlow/PA)
Balmoral Castle surrounded by snow and ice (Jane Barlow/PA)
A wall of Scots pine trees covered in snow on the Balmoral Estate (Jane Barlow/PA)
Fresh snow in Ingleton, North Yorkshire (Danny Lawson/PA)
A snow-covered sheep in snow-covered Ribblehead in North Yorkshire (Danny Lawson/PA)
A bundled-up visitor walks between fountains in Hyde Park, London (Jonathan Brady/PA)
