Awww ours has been melting loads :(
And college was normal :(
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Awww ours has been melting loads :(
And college was normal :(
A GIRL of 16 died and four pals were hurt yesterday in a sledging horror in a country park.
They were thrown from the cut-off roof of a car they were using as a toboggan into a fence.
The tragedy came amid scores of accidents — and fears snow chaos could cost Britain £3.5billion this week.
Brilliant student Francesca Anobile was killed at Rother Valley Country Park, South Yorks, when she and her four girl pals hurtled through barbed wire before smashing into a wooden fence beside a river.
Francesca — known as Fran — suffered massive head injuries in the lunchtime accident.
The popular student had passed 15 GCSEs at Westfield Sports College, Sheffield.
Mum Joanne, 42, dad Donato, 49, sister Gabriella, 15, and brother Alexander, 13, of Mosborough, Sheffield, were left devastated last night.
Francesca’s friend Nikki Burns, 16, of Waterthorpe in the city, was “serious but stable” in hospital.
The other three girls were treated for minor injuries at Rotherham General Hospital.
A spokesman for Rotherham Council, which runs the park, said: “The girls got themselves a cut-off top from a Land Rover-type vehicle — but they were not able to control it.”
A police source said: “They were having fun, then this. It’s an appalling tragedy.”
Messages of goodwill were posted on Facebook by Nikki’s sister Louise, who wrote: “Worryin So Much, I Love You To Bits Nikki. Hope Ur Guna Be Ok.”
Francesca was a star pupil at Westfield College and was selected for a leadership programme.
In the college magazine last year, she said of the programme: “We have been able to meet famous sporting celebrities and have acquired skills that will help us in our future careers.”
The tragedy came on a second day of snow chaos around the country.
Patients cut off by heavy snowfalls in Devon and Cornwall were flown to hospitals in military helicopters.
Driver Sam Armstrong, 23, escaped unhurt after skidding on ice and ploughing into a home in Portsmouth.
In Cwmbran, South Wales, children hurled a brick disguised as a snowball through a gritting lorry’s window. Police are hunting 15 youths.
Around 150 flights in and out of Heathrow were cancelled.
Scores more were scrapped at Birmingham International, Gatwick, Bristol and Southampton.
Rail services into London were hit by ice.
More than 1,000 Eurostar passengers were delayed in the Channel Tunnel for three hours when their service broke down after hitting freezing weather in France.
A second train had to shunt it through the tunnel.
Thousands of businesses operated reduced services.
Stephen Alambritis, from the Federation of Small Businesses, said: “One of the world’s biggest economies should not be grinding to a halt.”
It is just starting to snow again where I live and I have to go out on the motorway to two different places :crying: I hope we get a ruddy good summer after this long, hard winter.
It is minus 7oC in Livingston, but the main roads are all clear and have been since yesterday morning. My cul de sac is covered in frozen snow and is vey slippy, but I had no problems getting to work.
Some very artistic snowmen are still standing, although the snow did melt significantly yesterday.
My kids school bus was cancelled as all the bus company buses were frozen, so I had to turn back and give them a lift into Edinburgh. My youngest son was not happy!
Beautiful sunny day!
Supposed to have snow again today :( as if Monday has not been bad enough, and now Sheffield has snow again tooo....this is not my week :crying:
all our snow is melting... it is worse, all slushy and disgusting
My driving test got cancelled because of the snow, and its not even that bad :@
Im bored of the snow now :lol:
Was your test today Layne?
It was :( The roads weren't even that bad - GUTTED, now i have to wait another month :rolleyes: