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Source: BBC News Online 'On This Day', 29th January 1959
Dense fog - the worst for seven years - has brought road, rail and air transport in many parts of England and Wales to a virtual standstill.
London has been worst affected - but many areas of the Midlands, East Anglia, southern England and east and south Wales have also been shrouded in fog and frost for most of the day.
In 1952, London suffered from what became known as ‘The Great Smog’ - fog intensified by thick smoke. More than 2,000 people died in the week ending 6 December, mostly from chest and lung-related illnesses.
The Meteorological Office is predicting the latest ‘smog’ will persist during the next 24 hours in the London area and possibly in some parts of South Wales, Birmingham and the industrial Midlands.
An AA spokesman said 28 hours of fog in the capital had left a nil-visibility ring around London.
He said: "It is a motorist's nightmare as rush-hour drivers grope their way through nil visibility in the Hendon, Finchley, Northolt, Wandsworth, Bromley and Sidcup districts."
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