Every road-user in North Northants has noticed that potholes have become endemic on our roads. Many drivers have suffered burst tyres as a result. The wet winter was blamed for the spread of potholes, but we are now in the hottest, driest summer for decades, yet the problem seems to have got worse, not better.

Philip Wright is a local writer and poet. He writes about the place that he knows and where he lives, namely the Valley of the Nene and the Greenway. His recent epic poem spans the valley of the Nene from Northampton to Thrapston. In temporal terms, it travels from the Bronze Age to the present,