With winter approaching, it is worth taking a few minutes to make sure you, your home, and your car are ready for winter.

There is lots of information available online to help you get ready for winter.

10 things you can do now

Here are 10 things you can do now to prepare for winter. There is also some useful information on the Age UK website.

Your home

There is some useful information about dealing with extreme weather on the Met Office’s advice webpages. You can also find advice on how to deal with frozen pipes on Severn Trent’s website.

Using the roads

The AA’s guide for winter motoring can be found here. Advice from Cycling UK and the AA about cycling in the winter can be viewed here.

Gritting and snow clearing

Information about the council’s road and pavement gritting service, and community grit bins, is available here.

Remember, the grit bins around our area are there for residents to use.
If you know of one in our area that needs refilling then please do let me have the details.

Advice on obtaining pension credit

There are as many as 880,000 pensioners who are eligible for pension credit but don’t claim it. You can read about how to claim it here.