How do I know?

I am home all the time. I live overlooking the road. Once my outside livestock chores are done, I sit upstairs in my study on my computer, right by the window. I think I'd have noticed a big gritter with orange lights flashing.

Luckily, I drive a 4X4 and on the occasions I did have to venture out, I was able to manage by driving slowly and using four-wheel drive. I can't imagine how anyone with a normal two-wheel drive car would have managed Incidentally, my cousins came for a visit from Birmingham on December 21 and they said that the roads were all passable and gritted until only about 10 miles from my village when they were nothing short of a white knuckle ride.

So Mr council man, you are telling fibs. Most of the roads were practically impassable and downright dangerous, even main roads because no gritters came this way until day three of the weather.

PAM THOMPSON

Broad Drove East

Tydd St Giles