Potholes

Locals appear to have lost patience waiting for the holey highway in East Sussex to be repaired - and the resulting crude phallus drawings have attracted interest online.

Fed-up road users expose town’s potholes by painting rude shapes

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Pothole damage related breakdowns jump by 40% in a year, RAC reveals

Ben Thornbury demonstrating 'crazy pothole golf' in Malmesbury

Man sets up pothole crazy golf course to ‘make a point’ to council

90-year-old Kath with the food delivery from a nearby kebab shop after she got stranded

Kebab shop sends food delivery to pensioner stranded by pothole damage

The state of the road in Hazelbury Road in Hengrove, where 20 potholes were reported last year

Worst roads for potholes revealed with interactive street finder

Here’s how you can claim compensation from your local council if your car has been damaged by a pothole

How to claim pothole damages from your local council

Cheltenham Road was the road with the second most recorded potholes in 2022.

We visit one of Bristol’s roads worst affected by potholes

Bristol World has uncovered the Bristol roads with the most potholes - with one stretch of road recording close to 100 potholes in 2022.

The 11 worst roads for potholes in Bristol

Damage ranges from burst tyres to shattered suspension (NationalWorld/Abode Stock)

2.7 million cars forced off the road by pothole damage

The cost of road repairs is outstripping councils’ maintenance budgets (Photo: Adobe Stock)

Roads resurfaced ‘once in 116 years’ as pothole funding gap hits £14bn

A look at the UK’s most neglected street compared to The Last Of Us

Utility firms face fines for ‘plague of potholes’

Authorities hit with £13m pothole compensation bill in last four years

UK’s roads ‘on the edge’ as bill for pothole repair backlog tops £12bn

UK’s pothole plague drives up breakdowns by a fifth

(Composite: Kim Mogg/JPI Media)

UK’s most pothole-plagued councils revealed