Gritters cover almost 30,000 miles during cold snap

The council said all its fleet of 43 gritting lorries were used

Gritters in Lincolnshire spread more than £140,000 worth of salt on the roads during the recent cold spell.

The county council said its fleet of 43 vehicles had covered almost 30,000 miles (48,000km) since temperatures dropped on 18 November.

In total, more than 2,600 tonnes of salt was dropped since last Sunday.

The lowest temperature recorded in the county was on Wednesday morning when it reached -7C on the A153 near Cadwell.

The council's gritting boss Darrell Redford described the cold snap as "pretty brutal"

"We've never seen a road temperature as low as that, this early in the year, before," he said.

"Thankfully our prediction data was absolutely spot on, and our gritter teams worked very hard around the clock in the right areas in order to keep lots of routes open right across Lincolnshire."

Some of the county's gritter lorries are named after famous Lincolnshire residents, including the Spread Arrows, Sir Ice-ac Newton and Mar-grit Thatcher.

Snow and ice caused disruption across the county, last week.

A number of schools closed and there was disruption to some public transport.

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