Whoops!

I'm sure wherever you live you, like me, are plagued with potholes in the roads and probably, again like me, you curse the local council every time you hit one and jar your back and worry about what it is doing to your car's suspension.  Well Kent County Council are fighting back - they shouldn't be blamed for potholes they say, it's all the fault of the Romans and the French.  Yes really!  Roman roads were built for marching on, not driving on, and as such they were made to be soft and gentle on the feet rather than solid and rigid.  And the asphalt we tend to use comes from France where it is designed to be used on their roads which are more often founded on solid rock.  Put the two together and over here the rigid asphalt can't cope with the shifting substrata of the roads, and there you are - potholes. Nice try folks, but no cigar!