In this image made available from Britain’s Ministry of Defence, HMS Ark Royal sails into Portsmouth, England for the final time after it was announced that it would be decommissioned as part of the Government’s defense review, Friday Dec. 3, 2010. The aircraft carrier is the fifth Ark Royal. The first saw battle in 1588 and defeated the Spanish Armada. This latest, and possibly last Ark Royal, saw active service in the Balkans and the second Gulf War. Fleet flagship HMS Ark Royal returned to her home port of Portsmouth for the final time Friday, ending 25 years of service to the Royal Navy across the globe. (AP Photo/Kyle Heller/ MOD)
A young boy sleds in the snow in Bannockburn, Scotland as large areas of Britain were brought to a halt as the freezing weather tightened its grip Wednesday December 1, 2010. Heavy snow and subzero temperatures swept across Europe, killing at least eight homeless people in Poland, closing major airports in Britain and Switzerland, and causing delays to rail and road traffic across the continent. (AP Photo/Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)
The 1937 built, former London and North Eastern Railway A4 pacific locomotive “Sir Nigel Gresley” makes its way at the head of the “Tynesider” charter service from Newcastle, northern England to London’s Kings Cross station, through a snow covered scene near York, following heavy snowfalls across the region, Saturday Nov. 27, 2010. Severe weather warnings for almost all of the United Kingdom were in place Saturday with heavy snow, widespread icy roads and bitter temperatures forecast. Some 10 inches (25 cm) of snow is expected to fall over higher ground, while parts of the Midlands and London will not escape a dusting. Overnight temperatures across the UK plunged well below zero again, after a day when much of the country was badly disrupted by the earliest widespread snow for 17 years. (AP Photo/PA, John Giles)
A person walks towards the Angel of the North, with snow settled on the ground, in Gateshead, England, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. Britain shivered in sub-zero temperatures on Thursday as snow fell unseasonably early, with more wintry weather on the way. Up to 10 cm (4 inches) of snow settled in northern Scotland and north-east England overnight, the earliest major snowfall in 17 years. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
Snow covered rooftops, in Gateshead, England, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. Britain shivered in sub-zero temperatures on Thursday as snow fell unseasonably early, with more wintry weather on the way. Up to 10 cm (4 inches) of snow settled in northern Scotland and north-east England overnight, the earliest major snowfall in 17 years. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
First year students at St. Andrews University take part in a foam fight in St. Salvator’s Quad, St. Andrews, Scotland as part of the Raisin Day celebrations. Monday Nov. 22, 2010. Raisin Weekend is a traditional “rite of passage” for new students. Each year a fresher student has the opportunity to be adopted by a senior student. In the past the new student would present their senior student with a pound of raisins, this has now been replaced with a bottle of wine. (AP Photo/David Cheskin/PA Wire)
Poppies are thrown in to one of the fountains at Trafalgar Square, London, Thursday Nov. 11, 2010, following the two minutes silence for Armistice Day. Millions of Britons fell silent to remember those who have died in war, as the clock struck 11am. The nation paused to mark the anniversary of Armistice Day, when peace returned to Europe at the end of the First World War, at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day” of 1918. (AP Photo/Rebecca Naden-pa)
Kittens sit in a bucket before meeting the Duchess of Cornwall, during a visit to the Battersea Dog and Cat’s Home in London, Wednesday Oct. 27, 2010. It was the Duchess’s first visit to the home, where she toured the facilities and opened the new cattery which offers refuge to lost and abandoned cats and kittens. The Home is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson, pool)
A Sotheby’s employee poses with a 1957 emerald, ruby and diamond brooch on display at the auction house in London, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. The brooch, formerly in the collection of the Duchess of Windsor, made by Cartier to commemorate the Duke and Duchess twentieth wedding anniversary, is to be auctioned in ‘The Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor’ sale on Nov. 30 with an estimated price of 100,000 to 150,000 pounds (US$156,641 to 234,962 or 117,559 to 176,339 euro). (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

