What sort of wimps are we?

After hearing on a national news bulletin recently that all Shropshire schools will not open "due to heavy snow" I peered nervously out of the window.

I was expecting to see drifts up to the window ledge, roads in chaos, people digging themselves out of eight-foot drifts and instead a clear blue sky greeted my gaze. A beautiful winter's day here in Shropshire.

Just what kind of wimps are we now breeding? When I was 10 and living in the Wolverhampton area the school I went to never closed during the harsh winter of 1962/63.

Just look it up on the internet to see how bad it was. The snow came down on Boxing Day and it was April before it finally disappeared. No central heating, double glazing, gas fires etc.

This inexcusable action is indicative of the disgraceful state into which this once great nation has sunk.

On January 31 the funeral of a truly brave man took place in Ludlow. What would he have made of closing schools for fear of an itsy bitsy bit of snow?

Good job he did not consider the weather when trying to escape from a prisoner of war camp.

Mike Upton, Bridgnorth