spread sand and grit on the pavements in a short cold snap, and clean the streets in a warm winter.

in a bad winter its obvious

And the council won a fleet of extra gritters in a charity tombola i suppose?

Of the entire borough?

Oh, and no, it's not obvious

Ridiculous.


For fooks sake lets just put it down to 'one of those things'.....then in fifteen years time when it happens again with such ferocity we can all shrug and say it's 'one of those things'.

Let's just say it's not common for the UK to have such extreme weather over the years. Pie Man you could have it worse, but for the grace of god you could have been a resident / visitor of coastal Sri Lanka / Thailand / Indonesia and sat having turkey butties on boxing day in 2004. Let's just be grateful for that fact.

I know, I was agreeing with you.

There is no way extra men and salt would be able to clear it, but it would have some impact. Would it be worth the money, would it mean less spent on Libraries etc etc?? What I will say tho is why don't the council put more salt buckets out in winter and keep them full, one per estate. I certainly would walk and help salt my estate if it meant I could drive off it. The roads around Eccleston (Lancashire BC) are just passable but nothing can get of my estate.

And as was posted earlier, we had no power this morning and has been on and off all afternoon. that will be the Electric mans fault

People would probably abuse it by vandalism. Unless they were kept locked and keys given to certain trustworthy residents.

Hindley and Ince were a nightmare this afternoon, avoid at all costs.

And if you want a moan about gritters, be grateful that they visit - I live close to Kirkhall Lane, one of the busiest roads in Leigh yet it appears that they have used all of the grit by the time they reach Leyth!

Prepared? They try to control the weather to prevent the snowfall!

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1. Where are all the bleeding heart, yoghurt knitting liberals now, telling us that the world is warming up, it's all our fault, and to save it we must switch our TV's off standby and put up with crappy second rate lightbulbs that don't work properly?

2. Some of the explanations given re the snow have an element of truth about them. The biggest truth though is that Wigan Council are completely inept and inefficient and have been for 30 years. They used to say that the people of Wigan would vote for a monkey if it had a red rosette on it, on the evidence I have seen, I think that has already happened.

FFS - Our council have built you a stadium, what more do you want?