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Local authorities given extra £500m to fix potholes

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Each local authority in England will receive a cut of the 1.6bn budget for road maintenance.

The increase is 500 m higher than the previous sum announced in the Budget in October .

Increase is estimated to fix an additional seven million potholes.

Some of this uplift is being held back "until authorities have shown that they are delivering".

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87

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86

Neutral language

80

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formal

Language

English

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51

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