Bury Council are currently only reporting two school closures today (Monday 2 February). I will update this if things change:

Wesley Methodist Primary School, Forth Road, Radcliffe, Manchester
Heaton Park Primary, Cuckoo Lane, Whitefield

Please take very special care driving and walking today – it is treacherous out there.

(The M62 just past Simister Island on the edge of Prestwich. This image is courtesy of the BBC, and is Crown Copyright. The lane nearest the camera is Eastbound, towards Leeds – Prestwich in the background).
LIVE motorway cameras at BBC Manchester here.

The Council’s Environment Executive Member (Dorothy Gunther), issued the following statement at noon today:
“I write to update you on the present situation with regards to gritting procedures during the ongoing adverse weather conditions.

The gritter’s were deployed at 21:00hrs on Sunday 1/2/09 and worked continuously until 06:25 this morning. 137 tonnes of rock salt was spread across the borough highways.

Two gritter’s were deployed again at 07:00hrs covering the North and the South of the borough and are still out at the moment. We are going to utilise two drivers’ from the highways dept to join up with existing drivers to cover as many side streets as possible so it aids refuse collection tomorrow. Once achieved we will be continuing from South to North and fully operational tonight again at 18:00hrs.”