Potholes....

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Leading highways experts may soon be calling for the creation of a new national pothole agency following the failure of local councils to agree on how to define a priority pothole.

"More than two million potholes need fixing in Britain following the winter freeze, but a baffling array of official definitions regarding what exactly constitutes a pothole means that motorists and pedestrians face a postcode lottery of highway standards."

Now the official definitions are entertaining involving as they do an array of crockery, golf balls, dustbin lids and fists But surely what matters is whether the Council fill the bloody things in not when a pot hole may or may not actually be a pothole. Clearly, a national standard administered by an agency -probably called OffPot - staffed by a dedicated ream of tape measure and dinner plate wielding inspectors is essential if the matter is to be settled.

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