Letter: Two inches of snow and even taxis are halted

Letter: Britain seems to be getting heavy snowfall with a greater regularity than before.

This makes me wonder when the British government will start making winter tyres compulsory for drivers during the winter months.

As a former resident of Shropshire I now live in Poland. Like many Poles (and other Europeans) I have to drive through snow a lot, and a lot of snow it is.

One particular incident brought the idiocy of the situation home to me. My mother was due to fly to Poland for Christmas. I drove three hours up to Gdansk only to hear the flight from Birmingham was cancelled. OK, it happens.

What really annoyed me was my mother's account of her return to Trench. Having reached Telford Central she found there were no taxis.

When she eventually managed to get one, the driver took her to the bottom of Wombridge Road but said he couldn't go into the Springfield Road estate because the snow was piling up. The result was that my 78-year-old mother had to drag her heavy suitcase several hundred metres to her house.

When I asked how deep it was she said it was about two inches.

Trev Hill

Poland