PROCEEDINGS at a crown court were abandoned yesterday when it became too cold to concentrate.
Temperatures in York's dome-topped Georgian crown court building plummeted to near freezing.
A court spokesperson said the central heating failed during the weekend. Despite efforts to warm up the place with electric heaters, they caused an overload which resulted in a power failure.
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