THE major roads in East Lancashire are set to be gritted tonight.

Lancashire County Council will go out grit the primary and secondary routes in Burnley, Hyndburn, Ribble Valley. Rossendale and Pendle.

A council spokesman said: "When the bad weather strikes this winter, our fleet of gritters and snow ploughs will be working hard to keep Lancashire's roads moving.

"We have weather predictions of snow and ice and temperatures reaching below freezing.

"We will apply salt to selected priority routes.

"Priority routes only cover a third of the highway network and ice patches can develop on treated surfaces caused by water run-off from fields or other sources.

"Ice is most likely on untreated surfaces."