TRUE GRIT!

Greville putting the grit back into “Grit” Britain

ENTERPRISING Derbyshire businessman GREVILLE PITT believes he has stumbled upon a cheap and environmentally mindful traction-hack to help prevent cars and people slipping on wintry ice. And he says it is an obvious trick which has been right under our noses for millennia – simple household grit! “The idea struck me one morning a few weeks ago when I was going out to buy a pint of milk,” said Pitt, 63, whose whole-sale fancy-goods outlet went into receiver-ship the morning after Halloween. “There’d been a deep frost and the roads and pavements were like skating rinks,” he told the Glossop and Charlesworth Probe. “As I come out the Spar, a big yellow lorry turned into the High Street.” He continued: “It was carrying grit. I could tell because there was…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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