Weatherday: Tragic end to Fairytale

Crocodile sunning himself in Northern Territory, Australia (2018).

It will be a cold and dry day, with cloud and sunny spells.

Highest temperature 3deg in very light variable breezes. Another sub-zero night coming.

On this day in 2000, singer Kirsty MacColl, best known for her 1987 performance of Fairytale of New York with Shane McGowan, was killed in a boating accident in Mexico.

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