Pavements to be gritted tomorrow, county council promises
The reassurance comes following a complaint by a Skipton resident of Overdale Park. He said he was 74 and able-bodied, but had been struggling to walk along The Bailey all this week because of the icy conditions. He said he walks into town regularly to pay for his paper and collect fruit and vegetables, but said on Wednesday that it had taken him an hour. "I've lived in Skipton for 14 years and the pavements are the worst I have known them. There is quite a distance up The Bailey that is a solid sheet of ice. "There has been no salt spread at all and some of my elderly neighbours ca...