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Rochdale’s pothole-ridden roads will soon get the repairs they need, thanks to a new cash injection.

The town’s MP Paul Waugh says residents have ‘put up with deteriorating roads, delays and the cost of vehicle repairs’ for years, and hailed his Labour government’s multi-billion-pound boost for road maintenance – which aims to tackle this issue.

The Government has doubled the annual roads cash available to councils, part of a £7.3bn programme announced in the recent budget.

Local authorities can use this funding to identify the roads most in need of repair. This is the biggest-ever national investment in basic road maintenance, according to Labour.

Rochdale will receive its share through the Greater Manchester Combined Authority allocation, which is part of the new, t

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