Report your potholes, and how quickly they get fixed

Thanks for your great response to our Problems with Potholes feature on the Politics Show.

We were asking if you could keep an eye out for potholes and how local councils were doing at filling them in. Quite a few of you pointed out that hitting a hole in the road is a lot worse on a bike - and Dougie Lawson sent us this cracking shot to illustrate why.

Dougie broke his wrist after a close encounter with a pothole. He goes cycling in West Berkshire and reckons they're a bit slow up there at filling them in.

Will Wilson says the recent bad weather is just an excuse - "the impact was so bad because of the already poor state of the surfaces".

And Jim Owers wrote in from the Isle of Wight to praise the local council for its "report a Pothole" website - he reported one and says "a week later it had been repaired and they had even done some other work nearby".

Do keep those pothole pics coming - you can get in touch at politicsshowsouth@bbc.co.uk - maybe you can confirm what Dougie says about West Berkshire, or know about a quicker bit of filling in than Jim does.

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