HORSE IN DITCH
It took firemen and helpers an hour and a half last evening to free a horse trapped in a ditch in Marshland.
i The horse was grazing in a paddock off Turners Road when it slipped into a ditch 3ft wide and sft deep. The firemen lifted the horse with inflatable bags and then raised it clear with a hydraulic hoist. The horse had been in the ditch some time and had lost the use of its legs.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33790, 12 March 1975, Page 1
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