ROADS, trains and planes were all hit by yesterday's winter white-out – but Bristol's ferries kept going.

Eight morning and early afternoon flights from Bristol International Airport were cancelled – to Paris, Amsterdam, Wroclaw in Poland, Manchester, Leeds, Dublin and Aberdeen.

Spokesman James Gore said most flights were operating to schedule by mid-afternoon.

Train services on the Severn Beach line were cancelled and there were no buses laid on for an alternative service.

Train operator First Great Western said services between London and south Wales and Bristol were subject to delays, with CrossCountry services to Birmingham also held up.

A number of services from Weston-super-Mare were cancelled and some late-running trains did not stop to pick up passengers at smaller stations.

Meanwhile, Bristol Ferry Boats had a bumper morning, according to operator Rob Salvidge.

"Many commuters used the boats to get from Hotwells in to the centre of Bristol rather than struggle along the snowy pavements," he said.

The most serious incident on the roads was when a lorry jack-knifed on the M5 near Cribbs Causeway early in the morning.

Gritting lorries were out in force – but one authority is already considering scaling back the number of roads it treats.

North Somerset Council has sent its gritters out on 24 days out of the past 31, using nearly 15,000 tonnes of rock salt.

Now it says supplies are now running low and soon only major routes could be gritted.

Bristol City Council said it had 200 tonnes of grit left – about a third of the total amount normally used over a whole winter – and had another 200 tonnes on order.

A spokesman said: "We are relatively confident that we have sufficient supplies to cope with the current weather conditions if things go as forecast."

South Gloucestershire Council said it had ordered enough grit to last it until the end of the winter.

Taxi services were affected by the weather. Many drivers aimed to capitalise on the lack of bus services across the city but others were more cautious about the conditions.

Shafiq Ahmed, chairman of the Taxi Club Association, said there had been 20 per cent fewer taxis on the road in the morning rush hour but by late morning most of them were running as normal.