Three failed inspections receive a frosty reception – but are they a shambles, a scandal or just an annual inconvenience?
Isn’t it amazing that after around a million years of existing in Britain, including quite a few millennia that were uncomfortably close to a proper ice age, man still retains the capacity to be flummoxed and even enraged by temperatures that dip below freezing for a few weeks every year.
It’s not as if we’re a war-torn nation living in refugee camps, after all. There’s mostly not much to fret about in a British winter – except, apparently, when a bit of frost enters the equation and the sanctity of our social lives is threatened.
Like when a race meeting is subject to an inspection, maybe fails the first one, and then the internet lights up with righteous indignation, as was the case with Wincanton at the weekend.
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Published on 5 January 2026inPeter Thomas
Last updated 14:00, 5 January 2026
