From the Gazette and Herald of Friday, February 25, 1955 (From Gazette & Herald)

From the Gazette and Herald of Friday, February 25, 1955

SNOWPLOUGHS from Driffield battled their way through deep drifts on the Yorkshire Wolds yesterday to reach 100 Hull people marooned in three buses at Wharram, near Malton, since 2am.

The passengers, employees of Moores and Robsons Breweries Ltd, Hull, were reported unharmed. They were on their way home from a Scarborough dominoes and darts tournament, and the buses had tried to get through by the Wolds route when the Scarborough-Bridlington and Scarborough-Driffield roads became impassible. It was after 11am before the snowploughs and road workers freed the three stranded buses. The passengers were still aboard.

A REDUCTION in the price of beer was urged by speakers at the annual dinner of Malton, Norton and District Licensed Victuallers' Association at the Talbot Hotel. Mr WE Bird, of Sheffield, who presided in giving the toast of Association, said: "We are now approaching the budget which will be given in eight or nine weeks' time, and lately we have been reading in the Press and hearing on the radio that the Government intends to spend thousands of millions of pounds on making this country healthy. To my mind there is a solution which will cost only a fraction of that amount. That is to take something off the price of beer, which would make a lot of people healthy and happy. I think the Chancellor of the Exchequer should take off at least 3d a pint. If that was done, it would do an awful lot of good."

Updated: 15:42 Wednesday, February 23, 2005