Loo lunches at full school
Billy goats flee from Storm Gareth gale
EVEN mountain goats had to flee as Storm Gareth brought galeforce winds to Britain yesterday.
A goat herd wandered around Llandudno in Wales, avoiding the 50mph winds and nibbling people’s bushes.
The Kashmiri wild goats, whose ancestors were a gift from Queen Victioria, spend their time living on the heights of the Great Orme. Conwy Council said: “In foul weather they look for lower ground to shelter.”
The Met Office recorded top inland winds speeds of 75mph in Argyll, Scotland and 110mph, the force of a category two hurricane, on the 2,782ft Great Dun Fell in Cumbria. Liverpool was among the areas worst hit.
Giant waves lashed coastal areas in Wales, Ireland, Devon and Cornwall.
Trees damaged cars in London and Rotherham and six French fishermen were airlifted off a boat at Land’s End. A HEADTEACHER says a cramped school dining hall means some pupils eat lunch in the toilets.
Dr Simon Letman said children also take lunch in corridors and outdoors.
Holbrook Academy, near Ipswich, Suffolk, currently has 560 pupils in a building designed for just 380 when it was built in the 1930s.
Dr Letman told councillors: “The main hall does not have capacity for hot meals and packed lunches at the same time. The fact is it is relatively small.”