‘Everyone got supper’: drivers stranded by floods on motorway set up food kitchens for fellow travellers

Despite the deluge, spirits were high on the M1 as drivers shared resources while camped on road islands'

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When the farm workers came down the hillside, burrowing under a barbed wire fence to bring boxes of water and bananas to the hundreds stranded by flood waters on the highway below, they were a little surprised to find everyone so well fed.

And in such high spirits.