Taking the rough with the smooth: Bolton residents anger over half-tarmaced road

Residents in Bolton are angry after workmen tarmaced only one half of their road leaving the other half strewn with potholes

United Utilities resurfaced half of Boscow Road in Little Lever after they had finished a nine-month project of rebuilding a nearby bridge.

Elaine Ingham told the Bolton News: “It’s just ridiculous. United Utilities have left pothole after pothole on this street. Why have they re-done the opposite side of the road and left the side leading to our houses?

"We’ve got no drainage on our side of the street so, when it rains, it looks like a swimming pool. I feel completely let down, we all do.”

A United Utilities spokesman said: “We have been liaising with Bolton Council's highways department over how best to reinstate Boscow Road following our project at Wilson’s Bridge so that the road is in at least as good a condition as it was before we started work.

“The work has been done according to that agreement.”