A man has told of the ‘horrors’ of being where they have been partying and “drinking beer to keep warm”.

Gary Baker, 58, and his wife Louise, 57, from Wakefield, are among the customers who have been unable to leave the Tan Hill Inn, in Richmond, Yorkshire, due to. They have been holed up for three days now but Gary admits there are worse place to be stuck and he joked the main problem is they have “run out of sausages” for the full English breakfasts.

The country has been hit by anso far this month with temperatures having plummeted and thick snow falling. Gary explained how it wasn’t so much the depth of the snow but drifting which had seen it build up preventing people from leaving.

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Tractors had been used to try and reach them but even they failed to get through. And now they are waiting for the council to come with specialised ploughs and gritters to free them.

“The staff here are fantastic, great people, there isn’t really a better place to be stuck,” Gary told The . “We’ve been sat in the bar having a laugh, there’s live music normally put on here, that’s why we came up, they put a show on yesterday and yesterday evening there were parties. Lots of singing and dancing going on.”

Gary and his wife went to the pub in their campervan, where they are staying, having bought tickets to see Rag’n’Bone Man. The live music was cancelled though due to the but they have been stuck in the pub since.

“We’ve had a bit of a catastrophe run out of sausages, so we can only have a half English,” he laughed. “I’m up here with my wife, we’ve got a campervan. We’d come up here to watch Rag’n’Bone Man but it had been cancelled and by that time, we’d had a few beers so we couldn’t drive back.”

We’ve had quite a few beers, you’ve got to, to keep warm really. We’ve been camped outside in the van. It's been toasty warm to be honest," he added. They have been told now though to get ready to leave with the snow plough set to arrive.

Gary continued: “They are sending up a snow plough with a gritter on so they said to us, get yourself ready to go, get your cars, campers defrosted and we are going to follow the snow plough. So we are going to try that. Everyone is outside digging at the minute.”

He told how it has been a bit of an ordeal for the staff due to the length of time some of them have been stuck there but they have been trying to make the most of it with the punters. “They are working during the working hours but they aren’t working 24 hours a day so when they aren’t they are with us,” said Gary. “Some have been locked in for nine days due to shifts, I think they are missing their families.”

It comes as more than 100 flood warnings were issued across England with more rain, sleep and snow forecast, posing the risk of even more disruption. The Environment Agency has urged people to remain vigilant over the coming days as flood warnings are still in place and a mixture of melting snow and saturated catchments could lead to further disruption in parts of England.

The coldest nights of the year are expected this week, with temperatures potentially reaching minus 14C on Wednesday night and minus 16C on Thursday night, both in the north-east of England and , the said. Sleet, snow and rain forecast for northern Scotland and Northern Ireland mean yellow warnings for snow and ice are in place from Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday at midday.

Southern England is also braced for snow, with a yellow weather warning in place from 9am until midnight on Wednesday. The Met Office has warned of a small chance of power cuts and the potential for rural communities to be cut off.

Passengers and vehicles could also become stranded in the snow, the national weather service said. A yellow warning for ice has been issued covering parts of North Wales, the Midlands and areas in the north east and north west of England between 5pm on Tuesday and midday on Wednesday.