Gritting team tackles winter conditions to keep residents safe
Bury Council’s winter maintenance teams have been working day and night to help keep the borough’s key roads moving over the winter months.
Bury Council’s winter maintenance teams have been working day and night to help keep the borough’s key roads moving over the winter months.
Bury Council’s winter service team is gearing up to work day and night and keep key roads across the borough clear over the winter months.
Council gritting teams have been out 15 times during the recent cold snap from 5 to 18 December.
Bury Council’s Winter Service Team is gearing up to work day and night to help keep key roads across the borough moving over the winter months.
Bury Council’s gritters are heading out at 7.30pm tonight (Wed 3 Nov) on their first run of the season as temperatures are forecast to drop.
It may technically be autumn, but Bury Council’s winter service team have already been out gritting on five nights as temperatures have dropped.
The long winter meant that Bury Council’s gritting teams were out working more than twice as many times as usual.
Six Town Housing (STH) are delivering Winter Warmer packs - containing food, warm socks and more - across the borough to some of the most vulnerable tenants living in the homes they manage on behalf of Bury Council.
Bury Council’s gritting team has already been in action 14 times this winter – and, with icy conditions forecast for the weekend, that number is sure to rise.
Seasonal stories, songs and crafts for little ones and their grown-ups await at Prestwich Library on Saturday 10 December (10–11.30am).
Drivers are being urged to think FLOWER this winter to keep them and others safe on the road.
Bury Council consists of six towns, Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. Formed in April 1974 as a result of Local Government re-organisation it was one of the ten original districts that formed the County of Greater Manchester. The Borough has an area of 9,919 hectares (24,511 acres) and serves a population of 187,500.
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