Summary
NONE who was alive, and sentient, and sober - perhaps not even the latter - will ever forget the weekend of March 16 to 18, 1979, exactly 30 years ago.
It was the weekend of the great snowfall - "the century's worst weather, " The Northern Echo confidently claimed on theMondaymorning - and it caught the North-East cold.See the full content of this document
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Gad Fly - the Guy Who Came in From the Cold
It was the weekend of a thousand stories, many still told and retold, and (inevitably) the weekend that British Summer Time began. In quite remarkable circumstances, one of the stories is about to be updated.
ANDY Rust was a young graduate from what then was Teesside Polytechnic, one of only two passengers on a United bus as it fou...See the full content of this document
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