EAST Lancashire is braced for more snow today as bosses insist they are happy with the way the roads are being gritted.

Forecasters said the area was likely to get some snow, but would escape the worst of the onslaught expected in Wales and the Midlands.

And councils are anxiously keeping an eye on the latest information from the Met Office as they plan their tactics.

Duncan Reeve, a highways manager for Lancashire County Council said he was happy with current grit levels.

Winsford Salt Mine, in Cheshire, which supplies Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen Councils, has halved the time it had planned to close over the Christmas break to two days because of the demand.

Lorries from councils across the country have been pictured in the past week queuing up at the depot.

Coun Keith Young, County Hall’s Tory member for highways, praised the work of his gritting team.

He said: “They have been working night and day for about six days.”

Residents have complained about the hazardous condition of side streets with gritters focusing on the main routes into towns, which represent about 35per cent of the total highways network.

Coun Young added: “Faced with the difficult choice, and chose to concentrate and focus on our priority routes. If we had diverted resources and manpower away from the main routes we might have had roads snarled up.”

Chris Bulmer, a Met Office forecaster, said parts of Lancashire would get some snow today, but that it would be on the “northern cusp” of the wintery weather.

Temperatures would be cold with some strong winds, he added.