This council's tweet to show off how it fixes potholes backfired spectacularly

Get Darren a longer spirit level

Cheshire West and Chester Council certainly had good intentions when it send one of its media staff out to follow a highways team for a day, fixing potholes and tweeting the results, but this innocent attempt to get a bit of positive PR managed to backfire spectacularly.

It all started with an apparently harmless tweet: "Further along the road another potential problem has been reported. Darren inspects it and explains that as it is under 50mm no action needs to be taken at this time."

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