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A Banksy mural has been put up for auction on a US website with a guide price of up to £450,000 after being removed from a building in north London.
Photograph: The graffiti, titled ‘Banksy Slave Labor (Bunting Boy). London 2012’, as it was on the side of Poundland store in Wood Green, London. Matthew Chattle/Alamy (via Banksy mural torn off London Poundland store for Miami auction | Art and design | guardian.co.uk)
The Environment Agency has amended its advice on the best way to deal with the looming thaw after conceding that urging everyone to build a snowman would probably do little to lessen the risk of flooding.
Photo: A meerkat at London Zoo checks out a new snowman playmate in its pen. Zsl London Zoo/EPA
Snow still causing havoc in the UK. Here’s the sledging scene on Primrose Hill yesterday (by Dexters Lab)
Some great pictures of the snow blanketing the UK coming in from Guardian readers. See more here (or click on the pic) and follow live updates
Once more a focus of attention, on the day the Leveson Inquiry report is due to be published, Rebekah Brooks arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court in London where she is facing charges linked to alleged bribery of public officials.
From picture desk live: our photo coverage of the day’s events in the UK and around the world:
Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA
A supporter of Babar Ahmad, a british computer expert accused by the United States of raising funds for terrorism. The group are calling for the extradition of Babar Ahmad to be halted and for his trial to be held in the UK. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

An appropriate time to post Steve Bell’s cartoon, as Nick Clegg takes to video to apologise for pledging not to raise tuition fees.
© Steve Bell 2012

‘Linda, I’m sorry. I’m a fool and an idiot sometimes. I love you… please come home. Will you marry me?’
Van-driver spells out his heartbreak.
Photograph: Tom Wilkinson/PA