Locals force council to fill in potholes by drawing penises around them

Fed-up road users have drawn attention to potholes – by painting rude shapes on them. Dodgy daubings have appeared in white spray paint on a road outside Uckfield College in East Sussex.

Locals appear to have lost patience waiting for the holey highway to be repaired - and the resulting crude phallus drawings have attracted interest online. It also seemingly spurred authorities into action, with a work crew arriving on scene today.

Resident Helen Carr wrote “Meanwhile, over in Uckfield, attention has been well and truly drawn to the pothole problem by the college. At lunchtime we then got the road sweeper going up and down about 30 times trying to scrub them out, but all he achieved was to make the edges of the holes crumble even more and tear up the road.”

Helen added Friday: "I took the photos yesterday morning. Today the pothole fixing gang turned up."

Other comments on Thursday included “Drawn by the College's A level art class? Still life,” and “Looks like we should all rush out and buy a can of spray paint and get out and do all the potholes on our surrounding areas then!!!!”

While other jokers posted: “Yay...wan!sy has come to Sussex” and "I wonder who has the b***s to paint them?"

East Sussex Highways have been contacted for comment.