Scale of council's road clearance operations revealed
Pete Iveson was starting at 3.45am so he could get round his Buttertubs route in the Yorkshire Dales AN equivalent 14 Olympic swimming pools full of road salt has been used by a council as it battles to keep the roads safe this winter. North Yorkshire County Council's highways teams have worked 24/7 to battle the extreme weather and are reassuring residents they are prepared for any more to come. In the month from Christmas to mid-January alone, 20,000 tonnes of salt was used and more than106 farming contractors are also on-call to plough ahead of the gritters in extreme conditions. O...
Source: thenorthernecho.co.uk