There are an estimated 2m potholes in the UK – and the problem is only getting worse. What does this tell us about the state of the country?
On 17 January 1967, the Daily Mail ran a news brief about the sorry state of the roads in a town in north-west England. Not the biggest story of the day, it would have been forgotten quickly if one Mail reader, a certain John Lennon, hadn’t seen it, put it in a famous song and asphalted it into the consciousness of a generation or two:
I read the news today, oh boy
4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
