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SNOW BUSINESS

Tens of thousands of elderly folk are looking forward to a safer winter as well as a perk from the public purse thanks to one man's amazing invention - and it's a world's first for the Peak District!

A canny engineer from Beeley has designed a snowplough for a mobility scooter."  Francis 'Franny' Plant who runs a workshop repairing mowers and strimmers feels that at last his talents have been unscrewed.   An oncoming ice age of bankruptcy is now a thing of the past.   The 53 year old reflected with a sparkling coolness, "We don't have much to do during winter as you can tell with me being in the garden industry.   It was last winter 2011 to '12.   I was just sat playing cards on the computer thinking this was crap, really; just sitting around waiting for the next job and that could be weeks with all that snow on the ground.   I was all set to lay the lads off and wrap up the business when the idea just popped into my head. ...