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A man has called on Anglian Water to fix a sunken manhole cover after recording the noise from vehicles hitting it at dangerous levels. John Lyndon-Taylor said the cover in Victoria Road, Diss, presented a danger to cyclists and motorcyclists, and was like “a machine gun going off” when it is struck. The former town councillor said the defective manhole had been repaired last year, but had sunk by several inches since then. “It is a total disgrace that this has not been sorted out when you look at the amount of articulated lorries that come through Victoria Road,” said Mr Lyndon-Taylor, who ha…

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