Wisbech sinkholes close town's roads

Holes have opened up on Ramnoth Road (l) and Blackfriars Road (r) in the Fenland town

Two roads had to be closed in a town after sinkholes appeared.

Police posted a photograph of a large hole in Ramnoth Road in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on Sunday, followed by another on Blackfriars Road.

Writing on Facebook they confessed they "didn't know what is going on" after coming across the second hole.

Cambridgeshire County Council's highways team was investigating one sinkhole while Anglian Water was responsible for works on the other.

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Posting a picture on Facebook, Cambridgeshire Police officers joked they were "looking into it", before confirming that council highways officials had been contacted about the Blackfriars Road hole near the Empire Theatre building.

A short while later, when the second hole opened up, they wrote: "I don't know what is going on today. But another hole has appeared."

Anglian Water, which has responsibility for the Ramnoth Road sinkhole, said a leak had "caused some subsidence to the road surface".

A spokesman said the company expected the leak to be repaired quickly, but "due to the damage to the road surface, traffic management may be in place until later in the week to allow repairs to the road surface itself".