DERBY is set for dry cold weather over the weekend – with no more snow forecast.

In the city today there were expected to be bright spells but temperatures only as high as three degrees.

Temperatures will plummet to minus five overnight causing a freezing fog. The remains of the snow will freeze causing ice patches on many of the counties roads.

Forecasters say tomorrow will be cloudy with patches of rain but temperatures will be warmer.

There will be no repeat of last weekend's snow, which it has just emerged, did not stand in the way of two carers walking ten miles to attended to their elderly patients.

Jilly Sharpe, 25, and Marlene Pearson, 58, who work for Radis Community Care, based in Burton, woke up to six inches of snow.

They could not get their cars on to the road and so walked from their homes in Newhall two-and-a-half miles to their first visit in Stapenhill, Staffordshire.

From there they went to Burton then Stretton to their final visit in Horninglow.

A Radis spokeswoman praised their dedication.