Epic Trek Across Ice, Where - 10C Feels Warm: Advice Will Still Be On Hand
Epic Trek Across Ice, Where - 10C Feels Warm: Advice Will Still Be On Hand
Epic Trek Across Ice, Where - 10C Feels Warm: Advice Will Still Be On Hand
Advice
will still
be on
hand
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RESIDENTS in Monmouth
will still have access to advice services from around
Monmouthshire despite the
towns Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) announcing its
closure.
The chairman of the Monmouthshire County CAB,
Brian Counsell, said his bureau was actively looking to
ensure services would continue in the town, following
the decision of the towns
bureau to shut in June.
The County CAB was
formed in September 2013
when the former CABs
based in Abergavenny, Caldicot and Chepstow merged.
That CAB has also extended services to Usk and Wyesham.
Mr Counsell said: We
were saddened to hear of
Monmouth CABs decision
to close after its proud history of offering advice services in the town.
Just as we have elsewhere
in Monmouthshire, we will
also work closely with town
and community councils to
ensure that local needs are
well understood and that the
first class service that people
are used to will continue.
JOB: Paul Fosh at his office in
Newport
WE STARTED in the northern Yukon just below the line of the Arctic
Circle and walked from that point,
in temperatures down to -30C.
First we followed the Dempster
Highway, put in when they started
oil exploration in Northern Canada,
which is basically a gravel track.
After about 230 miles the road
runs out and you go onto the Mackenzie River, frozen over for six or
seven months of the year.
Even early on this river can be
half a mile wide, but when you get
on to the Arctic Ocean near the finish its just a vast expanse.
You get walls either side from
where they cleared the ice with
snow ploughs.
Initially the Dempster Highway
was incredible, with mountains and
forests either side, but increasingly
it was just snow and stunted trees
for kilometre after kilometre after
kilometre imagine an undulating
road going on for 10km or more.
Sometimes you could only see a
rise and youd think, Oh, maybe
there will be something after that.
You get there and theres just an-
THOUGHTS: Paul Fosh with his then fiancee, now wife, Sarah, on the day of
SONS: Paul with Julian and Keiran in the Brecon Beacons in 2012
NEWS IN BRIEF
Charity concert
Service awarded