Mark Morrell is on a mission to save lives by tackling Britain’s pothole problem. Now it’s his turn for a treat
Mr Pothole is the scourge of council do-nothings and lackadaisical Highways England engineers. As well as motorists, he worries about cyclists, motorcyclists and people with limited mobility, unable to travel because their roads are pockmarked and lumpy.
It all started in March 2013, with a dangerous pothole on the A422 near Farthinghoe, which is close to his home in Brackley, Northamptonshire. Mr Pothole wasn’t Mr Pothole back then, but Mark Morrell, a retired operations manager. (He was christened Mr Pothole by a local newspaper and it stuck.) “Do you know what,” he says, “I don’t mind what they call me, as long as they fix the roads.”
