Heavy snow blankets front pages

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Tales from "Snowbound Britain" dominate every front page on Tuesday, with some papers criticising the way the UK coped.

The Daily Mail asks whether we could do "just a little better" than a complete standstill given how accurately the snow was forecast.

The Sun goes further, accusing the Highways Agency of being "totally inadequate" and failing to keep the motorways moving.

The Daily Telegraph says that while most people would acknowledge that transport was never going to be totally unaffected, is it really acceptable that it hardly functioned at all?

Nation united

Despite the complaints, all of the papers do find some delight in the wintry conditions.

"For a day at least, Londoners returned to a forgotten innocence," Stuart Jeffries writes in the Guardian.

The Independent front page calls it "A day to remember". Inside, the paper is pleased that school closures left "children free to learn about life outside".

"The nation that was meant to be broken seems to need only a few inches of snow to bring it together again," the Times adds in its leader column.

'Blitz spirit'

The heavy snowfalls reportedly forced up to a fifth of Britain's workforce to stay at home on Monday.

The Financial Times quotes a spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses who says the disruption "knocked back the spring feel-good which we hoped would kick-start the economy".

The pink paper says there was a "blizzard of excuses" from those responsible for allowing London to grind to a halt.

The Daily Express congratulates those who made it to work, but says "those who decided not to bother fell some way short of the blitz spirit".

'Economic liberalism'

Several papers pledge their support for workers protesting against what they see as the favouring of foreign labour.

The Daily Mirror says the strikes are "not - yet - about xenophobia," but are "a cry to be treated fairly".

"When it comes to Europe, British workers clearly don't count," writes the Sun.

But the Independent takes a different view. It wants ministers to "stand up for the economic liberalism that will, given time" come good.