A man who had his car damaged by a pesky pothole last January has spent nearly a year battling with the council to get compensation. Steve Bailey, a Penwood resident who works in Andover, regularly travels to and from his place of employment on the A343—better known as the Andover Road. The busy A road has been the site of several potholes in recent years, with one Ball Hill resident describing travelling on it as “like driving in a third world country”. One hotspot has been just south of The Pheasant pub near Highclere, where the same pothole—which last year measured seven metres long, one me…
