Snow: hundreds stranded with more travel chaos to come

Telegraph
" After the coldest March day in 26 years a party of 120 German students were stuck in Hastings town hall when families due to look after them could not reach them. Volunteers made tea and coffee for the teenagers as they were forced to bed down for the night. The worst areas affected were Sussex and Kent, where the A23 between Crawley and Kent was at a standstill, along with the M23, A26, A27 and A29 after 4inches of snow fell. Two pedestrians miraculously escaped serious injury when bystanders managed to pull them free after they were trapped by a falling tree in Jersey. Rescue services were forced to treat them at the scene as two more trees fell and blocked the road. A spokesman for Jersey and Fire Rescue Service said: "It is currently snowing heavily in Jersey, with around 15cm of snow on the ground. It is the most snow we have had since the 9cm in 1962."