School's out for thousands of pupils with some facing second day at home

DOZENS of schools were closed yesterday as snow brought chaos to East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.

Several, including St Mary and St Joseph Primary, in Pocklington, and Melbourne Primary and Kingsway Primary, in Goole, announced they would remain shut today.

Meanwhile firefighters are urging people to take care after two incidents in 24 hours where dogs have fallen through ice.

In the latest incident yesterday afternoon at Humberston Country Park in Cleethorpes, the female owner was trying to go into the water to rescue her pet when the first officer turned up. The dog got out itself.

On Monday firefighters used a ladder to rescue a dog which had gone through the ice in a lake at Barton-upon-Humber.

Complaints about icy paths and roads not being gritted in Hull and the East Riding continued yesterday.

Hull Council said it had redeployed street cleaners and grounds maintenance staff to help grit pavements around the city, but said it was “impossible” to cover its 1,000 miles of footpaths.

East Riding councillor Keith Moore claimed East Riding Council had been “caught on the hop”, leaving elderly people imprisoned in their own homes.

He said despite requests, the road to Hook Primary School, near Goole, hadn’t been gritted.

However, the council said it gritted a higher proportion of its network than most other councils – up to 60 per cent.

Police said there were no reports of serious accidents.