Watch as new gritter names for Sheffield fleet are revealed

The Star, Sheffield

The new gritter names for the Sheffield fleet include Gritchard Thawley, Steel Gritty and the Burkhill Blizzard Blaster, named in honour of Sheffield's inspirational Man with the Pram, John Burkhill.

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00:00I'm a Sheffield United fan and that's the United song so that's why I just came up with

00:08it.

00:09Yeah, we thought it was really apt for Sheffield didn't we?

00:11Although not everybody at Charnock is a United fan, we thought it was actually, at the time

00:15it was going to be presented as well after the derby that had been last weekend, we thought

00:19it was a good one to put forward because it is quite famous for Sheffield, even if it

00:23is United.

00:24I'm not United.

00:26You're a Sheffield Wednesday fan.

00:27I'm a Wednesday fan but we have a really good relationship, don't we?

00:31We shook hands on Monday morning, didn't we?

00:33Yeah.

00:34So it was really nice.

00:35Everybody was pleased for you, weren't they?

00:36And then when they get to see the pictures that were taken from today and maybe this

00:39in the star and the interview we've done with Radio Sheffield, I think people will be really

00:43impressed and really proud of you.

00:44Nine.

00:45Yes.

00:46Nine high fives.

00:47One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

00:51One for love.

00:53It's a great, great honour at Sheffield.

00:55I thank Sheffield and my fans here.

00:57I thank all the council for doing this for us.

01:00It's fantastic fun to do.

01:02Yeah.

01:03I'm hoping that it gets me around it in winter.

01:07We should always go out with it, can't we?

01:09I use the E40 on my wheel so let's hope that it works and gets everybody nice and safe

01:15through winter.

01:16It's a great, great honour.

01:17It really is.

01:19And will you still be, I'm sure you will be, out and about with your pram in the winter?

01:23Oh yes, I'll never miss a day.

01:25I'm out to bed.

01:26I've said before, if somebody puts ten pence in my bucket, I mean I've been out, don't

01:31get me wrong, I've had a bucket full of water, snow, you name it, I've had it.

01:36But if somebody puts ten pence in it, it's ten pence more than that day before.

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