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An angry driver has said she won’t give up until the council has paid her hundreds of pounds in compensation after a pothole damaged her car. Sheila Burgman was left £515 out of pocket when her blue Peugeot 307 walloped the road cavity in January. The 73-year-old was heading to Waitrose along London Road in Allington when she suddenly felt her car go down the pothole. She said: “As I drove on I thought something was caught underneath. It was making a really bad noise. “I got to the car park and saw my tyre was down so my daughter came and pumped it up. I managed to drive home but it was still …