Sir Rod Stewart’s historic battle with Britain’s most mundane problem

Sir Rod Stewart is locked successful a years-long conflict with potholes, and he’s not going to get – oregon thrust – implicit the contented immoderate clip soon.

The Maggie Mae singer, 79, precocious deed the headlines erstwhile helium confessed helium whitethorn beryllium forced to merchantability his sports cars due to the fact that of the pothole occupation astir his location successful Harlow, Essex, which are driving him, ahem, potty.

Writing connected his Instagram account, alongside a photograph of his galore sportscars – including Lamborghinis and Ferraris – Sir Rod said: ‘I americium highly fortunate and eternally grateful to beryllium the proprietor of these 5 beauteous hybrid sports cars, which, successful my opinion, are existent “works of art”.’

Good connected you, Sir Rod. But helium continued: ‘Unfortunately, due to the fact that of the potholes connected our roads, I whitethorn person to find caller owners for them.’

Diddums is simply a connection that springs to mind, but this isn’t the archetypal clip Sir Rod has voiced his disgrace astatine the crater-filled British roads helium can’t determination for (literally).

Explaining however helium could nary longer thrust his Ferrari down a lane adjacent his Essex home, Sir Rod – equipped with a shovel, precocious vis, a roadworthy sign, and ‘the boys’ – took it upon himself to hole the problem due to the fact that ‘no 1 other volition bother’ successful 2022.

In a video, the prima tin beryllium seen getting to enactment connected the roads – with each the gear, and presumably nary thought – and told the camera: ‘I’m repairing the streets wherever I live. No 1 volition fuss to bash it.’

Wearing a luminous enactment waistcoat, helium raged: ‘This is the authorities of the roads wherever I unrecorded successful Harlow.’

‘Me and the boys thought we’d travel and bash it ourselves. While millions and millions of pounds are being spent connected the M11,’ helium continued.

Now, it seems nary 1 tin abstracted Sir Rod from the UK’s pothole occupation – which is really a problem, nevertheless mundane.

In March it was reported that roads successful England and Wales are astatine ‘breaking point’.

The Asphalt Industry Alliance found that 17% of our roads are successful ‘poor’ condition, with rising costs alongside ostentation exacerbating the occupation locally arsenic councils are financially stretched, portion utmost upwind has besides played a part.

The RAC estimates determination are implicit 1million potholes successful the UK each year, which tin origin costly car damage, oregon adjacent astatine their astir unsafe – crashes.

Sir Rod – alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger successful the US, who really managed to fill successful a pothole that wasn’t a pothole – has flown the emblem of pothole problems successful the UK ever since his viral roadwork video.

In an interrogation past year, helium discussed the video and contented again with Virgin Radio arsenic helium recalled: ‘I’ve got a Ferrari and it got stuck once, drove maine mad.

‘The adjacent time I saw an ambulance with a airy connected the apical and that was stuck successful a large large hole. So maine and the boys thought, let’s spell and bash it ourselves. So we conscionable did it.’

At slightest – dissimilar the Canadian histrion – Sir Rod correctly identified the holes arsenic potholes and not important work trenches…

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