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Freezing weather in the UK will lead to a rise in ice slip compensation claims, say personal injury specialists, as large numbers of people are being injured by slipping on icy, uneven pavements. However, ice slip compensation claims are rarely successful - it’s much better to stay as safe as possible on icy pavements to prevent slipping in the first place.

Pedestrians need to take extra care when braving the snow and ice this year - with record snowfall in many parts of the country during the first days of 2010 and a nationwide shortage of salt, more and more people, particularly amongst the elderly, have suffered slipping and tripping accidents while trying to get from place to place.

What usually surprises visitors to the New Forest is that each pony, donkey, cow, pig or very rarely sheep you see grazing on your visit, is actually owned by someone. These owners are called Commoners and they have an ancient right bestowed on them, from their property, called “Commoners Rights”.

For a yearly fee they can put their animals out on the New Forest to graze. In the summer they can get round and healthy, but in the winter they may barely make it through to the following spring. The Commoners are responsible for the welfare of their animals and must ensure they are well and get enough to eat at all times.

This is very hard to achieve when snow is on the ground and food is very scarce.

At no time could the New Forest be described as a winter wonderland for the New Forest animals.

Here are just a few dangers they face every day:

• Starvation - to keep warm they must constantly graze and eat whatever they can find
• Death by cold - if they get too wet or too low by not getting enough food they may collapse and die
• Death by car etc on the New Forest roads - many die each year
• Death by ignorance - it’s illegal to feed the New Forest ponies - why? They may die from cholic or choke to death if you try to feed them - they only need the vegetation of the New Forest - not a sandwich please!
• Death by litter - all animals are curious and usually greedy - if you leave your picnic behind and don’t take your rubbish home, the New Forest ponies etc will eat it, plastic and all and die in agony!

The Pineapple Express is a strong southern branch of the Polar Jet stream with a frontal boundary moving at such a slow pace (or not even at all) with waves of low pressure emanating from it. These low pressure systems are the main culprits of heavy rainfall. Along the coastline there is large volumes of rainfall, however, in British Columbia, Canada, the higher elevations see high volumes of snowfall quickly followed by rapid melting at the warmer temperatures from the Hawaiian Islands are also brought with the Pineapple Express phenomenon.

With any slip, trip or fall it’s a good idea to take a few photos of the spot on which you slipped or tripped straight after it happens, this will help relevant parties to assess the nature of the problem later on and to remember where the incident took place.

I think you will agree that NO WAY is it a winter wonderland for the New Forest ponies and other animals and wildlife who have to survive in it.

Verónica Carrillo V.
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