VIDEO: JCB clears snow from one of Derbyshire’s highest points

Gritting teams are currently out across Derbyshire amid warnings of spring snow and ice for the county.

This video shows what it’s like to clear snow from one of the highest points in Derbyshire.

Winnats Pass. Picture by Rod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press.placeholder image
Winnats Pass. Picture by Rod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press.

Derbyshire County Council contractor Mark Anderson, of PA Excavations, captured his work as he ploughed the deep snow from Winnats Pass near Castleton.

Mark obviously wasn’t travelling quite as quickly as the video suggests...

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