Michelin has shifted 500,000 winter tyres

The last two winters the UK's faced have been pretty vile. Lots of rain, wind and country-halting snow. Not good if, like the vast majority of drivers, your car is shod with soft, summer-friendly tyres. The slightest hint of the slippery stuff would see cars skidding, sliding and, sadly, crashing.

Because of the snotty weather we've seen more and more people take up winter tyres. They're designed to be more grippy in wet, snowy and nasty winter conditions in temperatures lower than seven degrees centigrade. So... the British autumn, winter and spring.