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Hikers ignoring lockdown rules have to be rescued from ‘Arctic’ Peak District
The conditions were described as ‘Arctic’
A group of hikers had to be saved from cold and snowy conditions after ignoring lockdown rules and going for a hike in the Peak District.
Four hikers called rescue teams on Saturday after getting lost on Bleaklow Moor in Derbyshire.
They had travelled 25 miles from Middleton to visit the 1948 plane crash site, despite ‘stay at home’ and ‘stay local’ restrictions.
The Peak District had ‘Arctic’ conditions with seriously deep snow that a spokesperson from the rescue team said ‘could have been fatal’.
A team of 25 volunteers went looking for the group at 3:40pm in the afternoon on Saturday, according to Peter Józefczyk of Glossop Mountain Rescue.
The group had reportedly been walking for five hours before becoming lost and ‘too exhausted’ to carry on.
The group of four, two men and two women, were all in their 20s and were soon located thanks to gaining phone signal.
Mr Józefczyk said: “With the wind-chill, it felt like minus 12 degrees. When we found them, they were extremely cold.
“If they’d been a kilometre away, they might not have had a phone signal.
“It could potentially have been fatal.”
Since March, Mr Józefczyk and his team have seen an increase of 70% in call-outs and that it was becoming ‘ridiculous’.
Despite the recent lockdown restrictions, the rescue team have been called to Bleaklow Moor four times in two weeks.
He added: “My message to people is: Stick to the rules and stay at home.”
Commuters could be facing the steepest rise in the cost of train travel in more than a decade just months after prices were already increased.
It has been predicted today that train prices across England and Wales could rise by nearly 5% before the New Year.
The 2021 rise in prices was delayed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic when train travel was at an all-time low, however, tickets still saw a price rise of 2.6% in March.
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And this morning, the Retail Prices Index for July 2021 was confirmed as 3.8% by the Office for National Statistics, meaning passengers could see fares rise by 4.8% in 2022, which would be the largest hike since 2012.
This means that the cost of rail travel could increase twice within ten months, and would see a Manchester-Glasgow off-peak return rise by £6.30 to £94.90, according to Metro.
Though all hope isn’t yet gone – changes to the fares in 2022 are still yet to be confirmed.
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A Department for Transport spokesperson said: “No decision has been made on national rail fares.
“The government is considering a variety of options and we will announce our decision in due course.”
This news has come as train travel in Manchester and beyond is on the rise – earlier this month, we reported that zero cases of Covid were found in Manchester Piccadilly Train Station, despite thousands of commuters using the station’s services as offices reopen.
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