The temperature in Edinburgh is between 3 and 6 degrees celsius. Hours of sunlight yesterday came in at 0.0. It's 21°C in Tenerife, and –1 in Warsaw.

Air pollution is listed as "low" in sixteen different parts of the British Isles, both today and tomorrow.

Copenhagen is the hottest property in Europe, but so is Estonia.

Elsewhere, kite fliers have become competitive, sharpening their strings in an effort to cut each other out of the sky. Punjab has banned kite-flying, at least temporarily, due to seven deaths.

Nine hundred students are hitchhiking from London to Morocco, raising money for education in Africa. The Guardian reports that setting up a blog "takes barely two minutes to set up if you decide on a unique password in advance." The stock-market float of British real-estate website Rightmove resulted in an 18% increase in value on its first day, and Madonna described kissing Britney Spears on stage as "passing the energy" from "the mommy pop star to the baby pop star."