All news on the topic: Potholes

The single largest payout for personal injury or vehicle damage from a pothole across England's motorways and major roads was an eye-watering £280,015

Pranksters have drawn crude penis-shapes around potholes on a road in Stroud, Gloucester, which has been responsible for causing several flat tyres

Mike Farron claimed he was in agony because of a pothole and sued Flintshire Council, before suddenly withdrawing his claim and he has been now ordered to reimburse legal expenses

Staffordshire County Council filled in 15 of the car-ruining nuisances near Oakland Holiday Camp in Brewood, Staffordshirethanks to advice given by expert Mr Pothole

Hastings is most famous for the historic battle that took place there almost a millennia ago, but a new sign is letting the town lay claim to a less sought after title

Photographs show the large potholes on Glebe Crescent, a residential road in Witham, Essex, where neighbours have been forced to buy new sets of wheels as a result of damages

Brits are regularly complaining about potholes damaging their cars, and one man who was frustrated by the inaction of his local council decided to shame it by getting his six-foot son to stand inside

Many are not aware that they can claim for damage caused to their cars by potholes and the recent MSE newsletter reported that £22.7million was paid out to Brits for pothole damage last year

One unnamed motorist has won more than £1million in compensation from the Labour-run Welsh government after they hit a pothole and suffered 'personal injury' four years ago

Mark Morrell put the repairs backlog at £14billion, up from 3.75bn in 2000, and believes the issues are down to a long-term lack of investment in resurfacing

Paul Jackson used two bags of concrete to fill a pothole outside his home last week in Exeter, Devon - he said the pothole was 'dangerous' and was tired of reading about how it damaged residents' cars

The mysterious pothole filler poured concrete into a 10ft wide crater that forced a road near Lostwithiel, Cornwall to shut at the beginning of April - the council is urging locals to identify them

Claudio Trenta, 72, has said he will fight a fine of nearly £800 to the end after he was handed the punishment for filling in a pothole on a road in Lombardy, Italy

A mysterious pothole filler who carried out DIY repairs on a road that had been closed in Cornwall since the start of April is now being sought by angry Highway chiefs

Tim Webb, 66, of, Bromley, south London, said for the past four months, he has been reporting potholes to FixMyStreet which is a site used to flag road defects to local authorities - before resorting to rubber ducks

Residents have filled the large pothole with floating rubber ducks after growing tired of driving their cars through the 'dangerous' crater without it being fixed

Local resident devised the yellow placard with bold black letters that advise motorists to take precautions before using the pitted road after 'years of neglect'

Residents on 'Britain's worst road' for potholes have blasted their local council for creating a safety hazard after 21 of one of them were discovered across just a 220 yard stretch of tarmac

An angry driver, who was so fed up with a local pothole filling up with water, has put up a sarcastic sign in the hopes of grabbing the attention of local authorities, and warning other

A list of the worst roads in the country shows that some authorities failed to deal with potholes for over 18 months. One pothole in the Midlands was not fixed for a whopping 567 days

A massive pothole, dubbed the biggest in the UK, is five feet deep and so large a child could fall down and disappear, as locals complained about its huge dangers

A young man became so fed up with the 'disgraceful' potholes that blight his local high street that he decided to set up a 'crazy pothole golf' course to grab the council's attention

But the Tories issued a staunch defence of their own spending on fixing roads - then refused to provide the evidence

One man is on a mission to solve the 'state of UK roads' by filling potholes with Pot Noodles - he's fed up of driving over them and wants the government to listen after a decade of campaigning

An annual survey by the Asphalt Industry Alliance has found that local authority highway teams have not received enough funding to pay for repairs and prevent further deterioration of our roads