With country gripped by icy weather, thousands track daily journeys of gritters and snowploughs online

It started as a winter safety campaign for school children living in the Scottish Highlands but has since captured the urgent need for escapism during lockdown.

Hundreds of thousands of people are now following the daily journeys of nearly 100 Scottish gritter lorries and snowploughs, vehicles luxuriating in names such as Spreddie Van Halen, Sir Andy Flurry, Skid Vicious, Gritallica and Mary Queen of Salt.

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