Yet more serious potholes in Drakes Drive have damaged cars. Cllr Chris White’s daughter was just one who blew out a tyre in an unmarked pothole on Drake’s Drive on Sunday morning.

Attempts to report the pothole as an emergency failed because the county council does not accept emergency calls about highways at the weekend.

Other cars were incurring similar damage. the picture below shows one of the many hubcaps on site being used to measure the depth of the hole: