A 53-year-old cook found dead in a school freezer in Essex died from hypothermia, a coroner rules.

The body of a 55-year-old cook has been found in a freezer at the school in Essex where she worked, police say.

The frozen bodies of two children are found in a house in Maryland, US by police investigating reports of child abuse.

A Labour Party campaigner sues a dog owner for £15,000 over claims his pet bit off his finger.

Poland's signing of an deal to host US missile defence system will put its relations with Russia into the freezer, the BBC's Adam Easton says.

Rare books damaged by flood water at a Derbyshire stately home are kept in cold storage to preserve them.

A shopkeeper tells the BBC of his melting ice cream as a severe power cut hits the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar.

The bodies of three babies are found in a basement freezer in Germany and their suspected mother is arrested.

A court hears how a woman from south west Scotland shook a baby girl so hard she almost died.

A night-time burglar is breaking into people's garages to raid their fridge freezers for food and drink.

The butcher at the centre of an E.coli outbreak claims his firm regularly passed environmental inspections.

Ashtrays, trams, shop freezers, plane crashes - all have been used to kill off soap stars. Vera Duckworth is the latest to make a big exit and how she goes is anyone's guess. What makes a good soap death?

Tiny channels in the Arctic ice support creatures that play a crucial role in climate-affected ecosystems.

A teenager is banned from keeping pets after admitting putting a hamster in a freezer, tumble dryer and washing machine.

A young mother put her 11-month-old baby inside a chest freezer while "messing about", a court hears.

A Belgian man is arrested after a dinner guest finds the bodies of the host's wife and stepson in a freezer.

The man whose body was found in a freezer in a cold store room in Galway city had been missing for five years.

The body of an Irishman found dead in a shop's freezer unit in Galway has been identified say Irish police.

US lawmaker William Jefferson, accused of hiding $90,000 in his freezer, pleads not guilty to soliciting bribes.

US lawmaker William Jefferson, accused of hiding $90,000 in his freezer, is charged with bribery and corruption.