Postman Dies In Snow
A Somerset postman has died on Exmoor while carrying out his rounds during freezing temperatures.
- Richard Lawrence
Friends pay tribute to postman who died in snow
Tributes have been paid to a postman who died on Exmoor while completing his rounds in thick snow. He'd been a postman since the late 1980s. It is understood that John Bircham's post van was towed out of a snowdrift by a farmer - he collapsed soon afterwards.
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