Panic As Snow Threatens This Weekend's Dancing On Ice

The problems that face the UK due to the snow aren't faced in other countries because we get so little of it, that it hasn't, to date, been cost effective to put in place the major rehauls of out transport and service industries, where as countries that get a higher and more consistent snowfall already have measures put in place.

Perhaps if you used a little common sense along with some actual knowledge, your opinions would have a bit more credence.

Alister: It isn't just the snow, this country almost grinds to a halt at any change in the weather i.e. The wrong kind of snow, sun melting rail tracks, leaves on the tracks For God's sake, are you going to say Britain is not used to leaves falling off the trees in autumn? Ireland has similar weather to England and I've never seen any panic when the seasons change.

Carol D - I'm going to make a suggestion to you, one I'm sure you're hardly likely to read and even less likely to follow - rather than trot out the tired, ill informed and downright ignorant of the facts nonsense you've written above, why don't you actually do an ickle bit of research.
For a start, this country does not "almost grind to a halt at any change of weather". Thats an absolutely factually inaccurate statement born from the worst kind of hyperbole.
As I have already said, there is justifiable cause why snow causes issue. It's only in the recent few years that snow has become an annual issue, and even then, it's not even a winter long one, it's rare to even break a week.
You want to spend billions of pounds making the UK snowproof, well, fine, but I'm sure in the current financial climate(no pun intended), it's more important to make sure that money is put to better use elsewhere.
Then you make the "sun melting rail tracks" nonsense comment, without any clear understanding of what actually happens when metal, ANY metal, heats up.
Do you, also, have any stats to back up your "leaves falling off trees" as a point?
I mean, I do, actually, but if you're using that as an argument that it has a large, noticable effect on the train industry, I would love to read your findings, especially as I can then check them against the ones I have, and also check whether yours were, like mine, checked by the regulating body, thus making them official, again, like mine.

But no, you just carry on with your nonsense Daily Mailesque type rant.

Rosie: you are aware you are reading the "entertainment" pages, aren't you?

Well there's plenty in my part of London and has been since early afternoon!

i loved the irony too!

You're more or less right, so good that you spared yourself the "article".