Quangos and councils shown up by Arctic spell

A NEW concept for 2010 … joined-up thinking. The prolonged cold weather has shown us yet again how bad our quangos are. County councils have the responsibility for gritting our roads. So can we assume there is duplication in each county of the operational structures required to purchase, store and distribute the grit?

And lately, when the AA announced that the N7 and N9 should not be travelled on, what were we expected to believe?

1. That these national routes were not treated at all?