West Berkshire Council - which has been mixing its salt with sand grit to try and extend supplies - sent trucks to Cheshire on Thursday to pick up salt supplies after deliveries failed to arrive.

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He also said the government should consider mixing salt with grit or sand to make it go further, providing supplies to towns and villages so communities could "help themselves".

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