Huge grey cloud descends over Britain

Life in the UK threatened to come to a complete standstill as a huge grey cloud descended over the United Kingdom.

Believed to have originated in the banks of Iceland, it threatens to engulf all economic activity for the foreseeable future.

The Government has stated that it poses no immediate threat and that it intends to carry on as usual, but opposition experts have speculated that it could start to dissipate as early as May 6th.

It was hoped that the emergence of a front of hot air over Manchester earlier in the week would help to disperse the cloud, but this has not proved to be the case.