PROGRESS is being made on the county's battered roads with the largest investment in years, Herefordshire Council has said.

The programme to repair potholes is more than half way through and the planned road surfacing is almost completed.

In the financial year to date the council's provider Balfour Beatty Living Places has repaired 40,907 potholes and carried out 102 miles of surfacing to stop the formation of potholes.

Overall, they plan to fix more than 67,000 potholes and surface more than 120 miles of road by March 31, 2015.

Councillor Paul Rone, cabinet member for transport and roads, said “The overall investment in Herefordshire’s highway network is larger than we have seen in many years and will make a real difference.

"However, we will need to sustain levels of regular investment over future years to bring all our roads up to an acceptable standard and keep them there.

"I welcome the additional funding provided by government to help to tackle the damage incurred over last winter alongside the substantial investment from the council and the allocation from the pothole fund.”

Herefordshire Council is investing an additional £20 million during this year and next.

This investment is in addition to regular maintenance funding and has also been supplemented by the council’s successful bids for severe weather and pothole funding amounting to more than £6 million of additional funding received from the Government in 2014.