Towards the end of January, after the heaviest fall of snow for many years, the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeensbire, was cut off by land from the rest of the world. Roads and railways were blocked; the telephone wires were down; but the sea was still open. In the course of ten days the life-boat twice to®k food to a village ten miles away, the inhabitants of which freie starving; fetched an eltctrician to repair the Fraserburgh electric light which had failed; took an air-raid message; aad took a doctor to an urgent.