let's talk to petty officerjimmy cantwell, who was out last night rescuing people from the snow in cornwall and joins us via webcam jimmy is from 829 naval air squadron, one of the merlin helicopter squadrons based at royal naval air station culdrose in cornwall. what we're doing last night? we our friends, we got a call and we went to lend a hand. when we got to the scene, it was worse than expected. we've dug him out of the stale and rescued three or four other guys who we re rescued three or four other guys who were in the same boat. were you worried, frightened being out there, it must have been difficult conditions? pretty horrific, when we got round the corner from going from nothing into the wind and the snowd rifts nothing into the wind and the snowdrifts of the airfield, some of them were up over the bonnet of the smaller cars. you are home now and save and you have helped some people. back to work as normal. thank you for speaking to us and well done for helping other...

incident on the a303 through wiltshire and somerset. 0ur correspondent robert hall was one of those drivers, and sent this report. with every mile, the clouds came lower. more snow swirled, and the carriageway began to disappear. by the time we reached the hills of wiltshire, the blizzard had begun. very soon everything ground to a halt. travelling tonight from east to west is absolutely horrendous. if i put the window down, hopefully you can see that, it is driving snow. we probably have six or seven inches here. in front and behind, hundreds of vehicles were going nowhere. we hope to get to taunton eventually but at the moment it is not looking very promising and we could be stuck. with lorries blocking half the road, the snowploughs struggled to clear a path. trying to get to an old people's home to to get the heating on. i've been stuck out here since 3pm this afternoon. do you think you will get out?