ANY 4x4 vehicle owners who are happy to be called on to assist fellow locals in time of emergency are asked to contact Launceston Town Council and be put on its ‘emergency plan’ database.

The town council created a community emergency plan because it felt it would ‘provide resilience for the community in the pre-event phase or early stages of an emergency’.

A copy of the plan, redacted for data protection purposes, can be viewed on www.launceston-tc.gov.uk/Community-Emergency-Plan.aspx

The plan was put together by town councillor Paul O’Brien with the help of firefighter Adam Chapman.

Cllr O’Brien told town council colleagues at their meeting on March 20 that the recent snow had brought the plan to the front of his mind: “There is a very significant role to be played by those who own 4x4 vehicles in basically acting as ferries to get people of importance to where they need to be. One of the regular things you see is nurses ferried to hospital. We have got two or three old folks homes. Were those workers not to be able to get there one would hate to think of the consequences.”

He is asking for anyone who owns a 4x4 and is prepared to help out in such situations to get in touch with the town council office and give their details to the clerk, Christopher Drake.

He added this would ‘ensure we know who they are, where they are and how to get hold of them, to the benefit of everyone’.

The town council can be contacted on 01566 773693, by emailing [email protected] or visiting the office, above the town hall.