Road gritting teams from Leicester City Council are preparing to take to the city’s streets tonight as very cold winter temperatures arrive. The team of six gritting lorries and 10 specialist drivers, based at the council’s Leycroft Road depot in Beaumont Leys, are on standby throughout the winter months. They routinely grit 180 miles of primary routes – more than a third of the city’s entire road network – and a further 40 miles of routes during more severe snowfall. With te