Council apologises for ‘dancing’ Moulton pothole repairer

The authority’s executive director of place and economy, Stuart Timmiss, told the meeting the video was “unfortunate” and “embarrassing”.

He added: “On January 8, a supervisor went out on site to look at an area – it was a pothole that had already been raised for permanent repair.

“He thought while he was there he would provide some ‘quick fix’ so, unfortunately, what he did was fill the pothole in a way which isn’t the standard and shouldn’t have been done.”

He said that the worker had “tried to be helpful and that backfired”.

“I think it is embarrassing to Kier that they’ve been found that that practice has happened there. That won’t ever happen again, I have been assured.”

Potholes in West Northamptonshire made national headlines last year when a campaigner known as Daventry Banksie erected roadside signs protesting about the council’s approach to road repairs.