No new grit bins have been provided to date.

"We will not be in a position to salt minor roads or fill grit bins."

“We provide more than 1,200 grit bins and these are for local communities to use on the highways.

However, the lower weight of plastic makes grit bins easier to steal or tip over.

Flintshire council said “outsiders” were stealing from its gritting bins.

Anyone may use a grit bin to clear a public path or road, though they are generally not intended for personal use.

They are also gritting by hand areas around grit bins and on various steep hills.

Grit bins can be subjected to vandalism, such as arson.

We’ve also introduced new maps for gritting routes and the locations of grit bins.

Then the head torches, snow shovels, grit bins and sledges.

Some grit bins have a small compartment, which could be used for storing a spade or shovel.

They promised to keep grit bins filled, so communities could keep pavements safe, and failed.

Almost four fifths of councils (76%) will be placing community grit bins for residents to use on side streets.

Meanwhile, Flintshire council said a grit bin was stolen in Buckley.

Councillor Gordon Edgar said the grit bin strategy could pay off for areas willing to get involved.

On Tuesday the councils will refill grit bins.

In the United Kingdom, the local county council is usually responsible for maintaining and refilling grit bins.

Grit bins are currently not being restocked.

"Judging that at the moment, we can't allocate excess or spare salt stocks to fill grit bins."

A grit bin improves winter road safety on roads which are not gritted by other means, such as from a winter service vehicle.

This year we’re more prepared, and I’m hoping we can get our own grit bin, but we could do with some more people.”

The city council said it had received calls from residents who witnessed vans pull up to grit bins in a number of streets and empty them.

It has responsibility for planning application, footpaths an other local amenities and has recently had grit bins placed at points around the village.

In Swansea, highways officials criticised "selfish individuals" who emptied grit bins of minutes after they were filled up with salt.

From Cumbria on Friday arrived a report that someone had emptied a grit bin and then tried to sell the contents to other residents.

Salt piles and salt bins will also be provided to affected schools upon request.

Maps to be posted online showing gritting routes and salt bin locations throughout the winter.

A deer carcass was in the salt bin, unskinned, uncarved, apparently much as he'd killed it.

No salt bin for Bright Terrace.

Councils have warned that organised grit thieves who plan their raids on salt bins using online maps were making conditions even more perilous.

“Our website will show you exactly where roads are being gritted and people will be able to see where the salt bins are.

It helps to maintain and extend the paths in the built area and the countryside, provides the bus shelter, litter, dog-waste and salt bins.

There will also be an increased supply of grit, with 100 additional grit salt bins, 220 hand-pushed ploughs and 16 motorised snow clearance vehicles.

Scottish Borders Council has agreed to provide salt bins to community councils who have signed up for the authority's Resilient Communities Initiative.

Clarke was arrested after he was filmed by police collecting the bags of cash from a salt bin in the Dargan Road Industrial Estate in north Belfast.

Staff began monitoring for signs of freezing weather, the stock of salt for gritters to use was replenished and 200 salt bins were filled in preparation for colder weather.

"While we are continuing to grit a large number of roads we will be gritting less routes until further notice and there will be no grit for salt bins and pavements. "

He said gritting teams were working round the clock, but urged people to take care when travelling as side streets and cul-de-sacs might remain frozen because not enough salt is available to restock salt bins.

I had to laugh when I saw that Glasgow has reported no problems with supplies, given that our smaller roads have not been touched since before Christmas, there are no salt bins near us, and those further away have been empty for days!

A grit bin or salt bin is an item of street furniture, commonly found in countries where freezing temperatures and snowfall occur, which holds a mixture of salt and grit which is spread over roads if they have snow or ice on them.

The front of the Trabant bounced and we slid off course, skinning a sand bin.'

The sand bins serve an important purpose, too, providing trains with sand to be dumped along the track for traction when the rails get wet or icy.

Two paved courts lined by regulator houses, tower-like sand bins, sand washers and the gated entrances to the underground filter cells provided a promenade for citizens taking the air in the park before it was fenced off in WWII.