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Tom Shields on … road to salvation

As you slalom along in your motor, avoiding craters and trenches where there used to be tarmac, you might think the roads could not get worse.

You are wrong.

Cosla, which speaks on behalf of Scotland’s councils, says we are facing years of further neglect. There will be no money in the public purse for filling potholes.

At the same time, there is a TV documentary about community punishment.