More snow on the way amid salt crisis
Updated on 07 February 2009
More snow is forecast as temperatures plunge, ice continues to make driving hazardous and councils warn that they are running out of salt to grit roads.
A container ship is on its way to Britain from Spain carrying 40,000 tonnes of salt, but it is not due to dock until next Wednesday.
Supplies in Gloucestershire are so low that the county council has ordered 500 tonnes of white table salt from a company in Cheshire.
Some villages in the county have been cut off by the snow.
