Three police forces urge drivers not to travel

Three Scottish police forces have warned motorists not to travel in the central belt after hundreds of drivers spent the night stranded in their cars.

Strathclyde Police, Central Scotland Police and Lothian and Borders Police asked people not to venture out "unless absolutely essential".

Heavy snow and freezing temperatures caused the country's transport network to ground to a halt. More than a third of Scotland's schools have again been closed. About 900 schools are closed and more than 200,000 children are away from classes.

There are blanket closures in place across the whole of the Strathclyde region.

Many drivers were stuck overnight on the M8 after heavy snow caused severe disruption to the route between Glasgow with Edinburgh.

Traffic was also brought to a standstill on the M80 in central Scotland, with drivers advised to stay with their vehicles.

Some drivers were stuck overnight in their vehicles on the M8, M80 and A80. HGV driver Fraser Brown told BBC Scotland he had spent more than 13 hours in "nightmare" gridlock after setting out on the M8 from Livingston.

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source: BBC