What a weekend..

Strange things were happening in and around Dry Drayton this weekend.

A night shift worker from Dry Drayton – one of those excellent essential workers who keep the major London hospitals working – had a scary trip to work on Saturday night. Arriving at Cambridge Railway Station at about 7pm to catch the Kings Cross train, she found that there were over a hundred unhappy travellers herded outside the station by the British Transport Police. A security incident was in progress – all trains to London up and down the line were halted and nobody could say for how long. A fast drive to central London saved the day and she arrived just in time for an 8.30pm start – her kind driver facing a hundred mile trip instead of a quick turn-around in Cambridge. Try getting compensation for that from the train operator!

Then on Sunday it snowed again, for the second weekend running. Some sort of serious incident happened on the back road from Madingley to Cambridge as police closed the road.

You would think you might be able to find a passing reference to these newsy items in the Cambridge News, but our venerable local paper seems to have missed them.