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Weather update that the two Severn
bridges, linking South
Over 200 cars were Wales to England, were
stranded in around 30 closed for ‘safety
centimetres of snow reasons in the present
overnight in Devon, a weather conditions’.
county in south-west
England. Many of the Flights were suspended
occupants of these cars at Bristol airport in
had to be rescued by south-west England,
the police, army, while Luton airport, to
mountain rescue and the north of London and
other emergency Stansted airport, north
workers. east of London also
saw disruption.
Over 1000 schools
were closed, many in Five days of heavy
the west of the country, snowfall, which is
where rural areas were extremely unusual for
virtually cut off from the this region, have led to
outside world as snow shortages of grit to
made the minor roads spread on roads, with
impassable to all some local authorities
except four-wheel drive appealing for help from
vehicles. Train services neighbouring areas.
were disrupted in both The price of this has
Wales and northern trebled from some
England. This table suppliers, and some
shows the number of local authorities are
schools closed in some spreading cooking and
of the local authorities: table salt on the roads
in an effort to keep the
A spokeswoman for the transport network
Highways Agency said flowing. A county
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council spokesman in revelling in the chance
Berkshire, near London to play in these weird
said today ‘Gritting conditions.
routes will have to be
On Friday, England,
prioritised. The district's
Scotland, Ireland and
network of secondary
Wales were all plunged
roads will not be
into travel chaos as
regritted until further
fresh snowstorms
supplies are obtained,
battered these
and roadside salt bins
countries. Much of
will not be replenished’.
England was paralysed
Despite the disruption, as traffic ground to a
there have been many standstill and
‘picture postcard’ abandoned cars littered
scenes, and many country lanes and back
newspapers and roads. England
websites have been recorded the heaviest
showing images of a falls of snow in nearly
‘Winter Wonderland’. 20 years.
Schoolchildren across
the region have been
enjoying the conditions,
although this did lead to
the tragic death of a 16-
year-old girl in a freak
sledging accident in
South Yorkshire. Many
of the schoolchildren
that were interviewed in
southern England had
never experienced
snow like this in their
lifetime and were
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