During the snowy spells last week a couple of the local Thanet newspapers asked for reader’s photos via tweets from their Twitter profiles: @YourThanet, @ThanetExtra I duly obliged and send them a link to my Flickr set and told them to take any they wanted and so now I’ve got some photos in the Thanet [...]

Last week I asked Why were our pavements not gritted? and it was suggested in the comments that there was a possibility of getting sued if you did this and someone fell over on the part you had ‘cleared’. This viewpoint was also supported by news items in the Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday [...]

The UK seemed to be obsessed with grit for the past week, it’s diminishing supplies, and how the roads would get gritted, but there was no mention of grit for pavements, which I believe proved to be even more treacherous for many people, so shouldn’t our pavements be getting gritted too? I’ve had to put [...]