Road gritters blessed by clergy as part of preparations to make roads safer this winter

Road gritters have been blessed by clergy including the Bishop of Lincoln as part of preparations to make Lincolnshire's roads safer this winter.

All 43 of Lincolnshire's gritters were blessed by various clergy at the county's eight depots. It is the latest unusual blessing for the Right Reverend Christopher Lowson, who has also blessed church toilets. "Gritters and toilets are really important parts of our lives," he said.



The Right Reverend Lowson said: "Toilets is probably the strangest thing [I've blessed] but it's actually making the point that God is not just interested in what you might think of as holy stuff, but the whole of life."

Talking about the first time he blessed toilets, he said: "As we finished, the toilet flushed and this rather embarrassed man came out of it with the congregation standing with the bishop in the middle of them. So the toilet was blessed in several ways really."