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Skating on thin ice

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

First thing’s first, please forgive me for jumping on the bandwagon and writing a snow-related blog, and secondly for the awful pun used in my title. Having said that, is anyone else part bemused and part annoyed at the UK’s reaction and general dealing with the snow situation? Parts of the UK have indeed had ‘raw’ deal but there’s less than a couple of inches actually settled in London and yet transport in the City comes to a standstill. Hasn’t anyone thought about implementing a contingency plan that actually works?

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