Exempel på gritting

• For a while they would stay like that, gritting their teeth all the way.

• Arrangements are being made for the necessary supplies of gritting material to be made available.

• Is he further aware that it was too late to cut back in any area other than winter maintenance and gritting?

• The cost to local authorities of gritting vehicles was mentioned.

• I therefore ask for a reappraisal of the funding allocated and the inclusion of all school bus routes in regular salt and gritting schedules.

• For example, last winter the contractors providing services failed disastrously in their task of gritting the roads.

• Gritting in moderate weather may mean that the authority will use up its budget before the end of the year.

• As has been said, that involves publishing plans for which roads have priority for gritting.

• I understand that it was due to wholly unsual circumstances which obstructed the board's normally efficient clearing and gritting arrangements.

• The gritting was not done in time, and then there was an enormous fall of snow.

• The gritting was then done, but it was too late.

• The council is talking about increasing charges for car parking and cemeteries, and cutting standby road gritting.

• In how many areas was gritting not possible because the unions refused to do standby duty?

• Gritting teams cross each other, unable to grit certain roads because it is the other authority's responsibility.

• I was going to cite as an emergency service the gritting of roads, but perhaps that is an unfortunate example.