{"id":428346,"date":"2026-02-16T08:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428346\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:17:10","slug":"what-is-behind-the-spike-in-pothole-related-call-outs-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428346\/","title":{"rendered":"What is behind the spike in pothole related call-outs? &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXEFVX3lxTE42M1BhUlhPZmZPTkdWSTNtbWtyOVpYd1R6VGZUelcyZEtJbEhILS1PZFFONk0tbE1wT1ZLU09fOV9oSzRWeW8ySTZnWDA2cjNNMzNaOHlPdlBaQUt3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is behind the spike in pothole related call-outs?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiigFBVV95cUxNYVkyRTNxZmdLbmIzaXF0ZDBVdzIwZ0lDemdrcnczMUt2bVNvS1E1c05UUUo1clNXeGZMV08wVjhsVm1ZQVNqc3NIUm14US1qNWVoNXdTd2xndUNEWkN1V3hhdF9RYVZEWDdFa0JQZUtuWkFDSE5ISXBBU1pqTUhyNEpCeWs0c2Q5MlE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Surely potholes were never this bad before? | Adrian Chiles<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxQZDBKb3VxOWdZSEJKVzd0VVl3QmRtTnpkZHk3QW5NZTEzanl5SlNFWGR0cEFWaW9WX0w0cGZ5Wmpnd3JiSExuRDdnWnBTM25Hb1ZLRHZ6N204SWZxLWc2ZDBpRy1jaVhhZlR0d0tQWUhIVkZSZGZNN0lWZDh6blR0cVVxT2pOejE3SzJZek9RQVV1VUZKSl9SZlRXWk42VkRfd21LMVR5cmpJT1RqRHNzWWNDOA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pothole pain persists: Vehicle breakdowns where poor roads were to blame rose 15% last year<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RAC Media Centre<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2gFBVV95cUxQbW1SR1BXNTB4OUh3UXVDVlJMb1lNMENwMDlBUVM1UldIbFBBdTkxczFBMXNlVXJOOVFLMDh1MUZnTzFlZTE1czVBV1pkemdlWXV0cnliRjhFTWRIY1R6S3lXUHhGcXRpTVQ0WXFIX1dhblloS0J0ME5zRzVnUmRKTUh0NjVON3FuWGQ2UWM5VG5KWFZjZ0pVc0N5MGtnSWZRMmE4LUNaSE5KVThJSzRmV3loemtxVlZ1ZlNIZ2VTbWRYZEhuZ204bDVvOTBJUDFBdnBxd3lHTkxHQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Car damaged near Rothbury as councillor warns of thousands of potholes<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Northumberland Gazette<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiigFBVV95cUxNWHNzM3NnSGlURTd6OHdFN0p0Q2pFWVJyYUhibUlLMlo3RzBfNE9YTFllbnhDR3VGa18zcnhhcnZKVHhERWsyc0JfejlJenU4LWRqZ2dlbGdiUFU2alVRLXpoNkRwNE9wWEJGNUJPTndGb3JaRklJNnh5VVFuQ3BQUWpxWW5PV0VBZEE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Standing up to potholes means demanding prevention not patching<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Argus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is behind the spike in pothole related call-outs?&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCSurely potholes were never this bad before? | Adrian Chiles&nbsp;&nbsp;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-428346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}