AS people across the length and breadth of Britain find themselves caught in the icy and unrelenting grip of the bleak midwinter, and the struggle to carry on regardless becomes more and more fraught with elemental concerns, take a look at this picture from the notoriously severe winter of 1982 which battered Abergavenny senseless.

If the snow on the way is anything like it was in Market Street back in the day, we’re in a heap of trouble folks!