FURTHER to my letter ‘Do something about streets’, Guardian, January 22, I was in Knutsford library recently and saw, by the main entrance, a life-size cardboard cut-out of a Cheshire East workman in a hard hat, holding a board with a coloured scale, like a large thermometer, headed – ‘50,000 potholes repaired’.

The message was that CEC has responded to calls from residents reporting dangerous potholes in their area.

They are obviously proud of their performance, and I assume that the life-sized images are on display all over the county?

How many of the 50,000 were in Knutsford, and how many have been repaired more than once?

Judging by the state of the footpaths and roads in and around the town, the council is definitely losing the battle.

There is something fundamentally wrong for the council to be trying to put a positive spin on a desperate situation.

Lack of money may be the problem, but some areas are dangerous and should be properly repaired before they have to be closed off.

We could do with knowing what the council programme is for properly resurfacing the roads and relaying paving on footpaths.

Apart from the discomfort to pedestrians, I am surprised that there is no outcry from shop owners because the scarred image of Knutsford and the inconvenience to shoppers may impact on their businesses, and they are no doubt paying massive rates.

HUGO MCCORKELL Knutsford