Brent Council is reducing the numbers of roads it is gritting because the amount of salt available is "critical". At the same time, rubbish collection has been suspended although it resumes today, and is due to catch up by Saturday.
My impression is that many authorities have bought too little grit as an economy measure and are now being surprised by an unusually bad winter. This is certainly the case in Brent where the Liberal Democrats cut the gritting budget by £38,000 in 2007 against Labour protests. They got away with that for a couple of years, but the inevitable cold snap has caught up with them.
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