The results of our latest poll are back in – and an overwhelming verdict has been handed down by our readers – we as a nation, prefer winter nights for our sleeping patterns.

Perhaps this has come at the right time, as an unusually warm April for many really kicked off the winter lead-in by giving us some hotter than usual autumn nights.

Just under 70 percent of those who voted prefer to sleep during winter – but some commenters backed up their votes for the opposition by telling us why:

“I HATE sleeping in winter! First I go to bed with cold feet so I can’t get to sleep until they warm up. Then I wake up with cold ears and don’t want to get out of bed. And the weight of so many blankets in winter is oppressive too. I could carry on about the many horrid things about sleeping in winter, let’s just leave it at I’m a summer sleeper!” – J Strawbs

Keep an eye out for our next poll – coming tomorrow morning at 10!