Four inches of snow brought chaos to Forest roads on Wednesday for the second time in a week.

The Forest suffered more than most during this week's deep freeze.

Post went undelivered, rubbish collections were suspended, buses were cancelled and a 25-year-old driver from Gloucester had a lucky escape when his silver Toyota Avensis overturned on the Speech House Road on Tuesday morning.

At Dunkley's Corner on the edge of Steam Mills a 20 tonne articulated lorry was chained to two 4x4 vehicles in an effort to pull it up the hill on Friday.

Phone services were disrupted in the Gorsley and Kilcot areas when a silver Renault Megane left the B4221 and ploughed through a telegraph pole on Friday morning.

The same morning, farmer Pip Woodman, from Westbury-on-Severn, overturned his Land Rover on Hunt Hill but escaped unhurt.

A jack-knifed lorry closed Ross Road, near Longhope, a bread lorry got stuck on Newnham-on-Severn's High Street, and a 'Keep Left' bollard was flattened on St White's Road, Cinderford, the same day.

On Saturday, an ambulance crew was called to tend to a Blakeney woman when her Rover 25 came off the A48 at Minsterworth and hit a barrier and a tree.

On Sunday, a red Seat Ibiza and a silver Ford Fiesta collided on the Speech House Road near the Dilke Memorial Hospital.

A 35-year-old Coleford woman had a lucky escape on Monday when her red Citroen C1 ended up on its side after it left the A4136 at Worrall Hill.

Nearly all schools closed on Friday and Wednesday and only 25 out of around 180 people turned up for work at The Warranty Group in Mitcheldean last Friday.