NORTH Yorkshire County Council is backing the latest initiative to raise awareness about potholes in the county.

National Polthole Day, launched by the national fault reporting system Street Repairs, is urging people to report any damage to roads to the council.

The county council has spent the last 18 months lobbying central Government about the state of the county’s roads and as a result the authority has been given £29.650m for maintenance county’s roads over 2015/16, over £9m more than it was allocated last year.

County Councillor Gareth Dadd, North Yorkshire’s executive member for highways, said: “Good roads are vital – for day-to-day travelling, for business and pleasure and for economic prosperity.”

“Our priority up until now has been to concentrate on the busier A and B roads so these are now in quite good condition. But this has had an impact on the quieter roads and about one quarter of these now require maintenance.”

To report potholes, visit northyorks.gov.uk