Watch: Old tyres used to repair potholes

Roads riddled with potholes in Derbyshire are being repaired using a material containing old tyres.

The flexible Roadmender Asphalt material allows contractors to seal defects in the road's surface without the need to excavate.

The asphalt is being used by Derbyshire County Council, and it comes after the authority wrote an open letter to residents, apologising for the state of the region's roads.

Councillor Charlotte Cupit, cabinet member for highways assets and transport, said: "Materials like this and new techniques like this will hopefully mean that we won't have to come back to the same pothole hotspots time and again."

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