The incident

It was a normal saturday. At about 10 o'clock, John was cycling to a lake near the town. He was going fishing. There was a dam at one end of the lake. While he was crossing the dam, he saw a crack in the wall. Water was coming through the crack. It was going to flood the town. When John saw it, he turned round and cycled back to the town as fast as possible. When he reached the town, he shouted, "The dam's breaking!". While he reached the town, people were shopping and some children were playing. Whe people heard him, everyone grabbed their children, pets and things and ran indoors. As he was cycling past the post office, Mrs Roberts shouted,"Quick, come in here." He ran into the post office and Mrs Roberts shut the door. About a minute later the water went past. It picket up cars and it carried them down the street like toys. It was very scary. The water damaged a lot of cars and buildings, but everybody was safe thanks to John. But now he couldn't go fishing, because they haven't got a lake!

Roads

Vehicles in Britain and Ireland travel on the left of the road, so the steering wheel is on the right. It is because when people travelled on horses, everybody travelled on the left, so your right arm was free to use a sword. You normally get on and off a horse on the left side, too, so your left side had to be close to the side of the road. However, in 18th century farmers in France started to use carts with teams of horses. The driver sat on the left-hand horse so that his right hand was free to control the other horses. He needed to travel on the right so that he was in the middle of the road and could make sure that he didn't hit other carts. Slowly most countries changed to the right, but several European countries, including Portugal, Italy, Hungary and Czechoslovakia still travelled on the left until the 1920s and 1930s.

The most important roads in Britain are the motorways. In some countries you have to pay a toll to use the motorways, but in Britain and Ireland most of them are free.