Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander’s plans to fix Britain’s potholes hit a sizeable bump in the road after her own car struck a ‘crater worthy of the moon’ and had to be towed away.
The Labour minister had been driving home from her Swindon South constituency when her green Mini Cooper struck a hole on the B4437 outside Burford in Oxfordshire.
Her ordeal came ahead of new rules announced on Tuesday proposing that local councils could lose up
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