In the last year the central market has been rebuilt, traffic lights put in, and 80% of the potholes fixed.

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The council said that between 1 January and 6 March, 92% of potholes were fixed within 24 hours of being reported.

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As well as landslips, it said that 35, 000 potholes had been fixed since April, compared to 41, 000 fixed across the entire previous financial year.

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John Foster, who runs a free-range egg farm at Moreleigh near Totnes, said he had been waiting for 15 potholes to be fixed on the road to his farm.

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Highway repair teams fixed more than 1, 400 potholes between 1 and 10 April and say they are on target to repair an average 3, 000 a month in spring.

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Under one scheme, road stewards were surveying the condition of roads and had identified nearly 90 potholes which needed to be fixed quickly.

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He said numbers of potholes meant they could not be fixed when reported and urged people to be patient.

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