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Greengross to salt mountain
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"REP LATE page 1" screamed frenetic news editors up and down Fleet Street as they heard that Alan Greengross, leader of the Greater London Council's Planning and Communications Policy Committee, was going to look at 40,000 tons of rock salt at Edmonton.
Even the girl on page 3 of The Sun was apprehensive. Well she might have been, for even her generous contours could not match those of a heap 20ft high. And as every reader of The Sun will tell you, big is beautiful.
The salt mountain is "an emergency reserve . . to keep London's traffic moving and the roads safer in the event of a big freeze-. I hope the Council can afford to spread it. Twenty road authorities that submitted claims for money promised by the previous government last
winter are still waiting to be paid.
In any event, according to the AA, salt stocks are well below an adequate amount in Britain. -Councils require some 3 million tonnes but only 2.4 million tonnes looks like being available,'" says the Association. Insurance companies are not going to enjoy this winter.