Heavy snow causes travel disruption in UK as weather warnings remain

Drivers describe 'carnage' on roads after snowfallpublished at 13:44 Greenwich Mean Time

Grace WoodBBC News, Yorkshire

Fire truck on snowy road supporting white car and lorry getting stuck because of the bad weather

Speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield this morning, one driver, Lee, described the M1 near Barnsley as "absolute carnage".

He said he had got stuck in "about 7-8in of snow" (17-20cm) returning home from his night shift in Doncaster.

He said: "There's police, there's lorry recovery trucks getting stuck trying to pull lorries out, there's cars getting stuck."

Meanwhile on the A64, emergency services were supporting struggling cars and HGVs at Bilbrough Top near York.

Another driver told the BBC his mother's carer hadn't been able to get to her this morning and he was concerned about the state of the roads impacting the abilities of key workers to get around.