Sir Keir Starmer visited a Halfords repair shop in Cambridge with Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander to see the damage caused by potholes to vehicles. The prime minister warned councils to prove they're tackling the issue or risk losing funding. An additional £4.8 billion will be allocated to roadworks, with councils required to publish progress reports, or face losing 25% of their funding boost. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00One of the big things we've got going on at the minute, and since October, we launched our free pothole damage check.
00:05Yeah, I saw that.
00:06So we do a whole host of checks, but obviously due to the roads, how they are.
00:09But that's literally, anyone can book in and come in and have a look and say, have I got damage?
00:14Absolutely, yeah.
00:15So it covers a whole host of bits, so tyres is the main thing.
00:18That's the first thing you're going to see with pothole damage.
00:20So you can see the mark there.
00:24And then is that usable? Is that done?
00:27No, once the sidewall's hurt, that's it.
00:29You're learning, you're actually doing it for real.
00:32I've learnt a lot since I started in the garage, definitely more than college.
00:35That's a big part of it as well.
00:41So when you get one of these checks in, you just literally get it up on here.
00:45So we've got a shock absorber up in the top, which we're looking for leaks or any sort of damage.
00:50And you'd see it from there, yeah, you'd see it.
00:52Mostly, yeah, and obviously once we get the wheel off, we can see more.
00:55I was going to say, presumably then you've got getting the wheel off anyway.
00:57Hello, we've got a few people, local people.
01:02Which counts as doing what where, how many times they're filling in,
01:06so we can get a bit of data on that which we haven't got.
01:09But this, what we're announcing today is to incentivise them to get on and do it.
01:12The same.
01:13You had the same?
01:14Yeah.
01:15I suppose there's no exemption for Halfords, is there?
01:18No, but yeah, at least I understood what I needed to do with my car.
01:22So what, you hit a pothole?