PHOTOS: Is this Somerset sinkhole the country's biggest pothole?

PHOTOS: Is this Somerset sinkhole the country's biggest pothole?
These pictures reveal what is believed to be the country’s biggest pothole in Wells, Somerset, measuring a staggering five metres across and over three and half metres deep.

Highways engineers from Somerset County Council’s Mendip area office got more than they bargained for when called to inspect a section of road at Green Ore.

The gaping chasm was discovered in the middle of the B3135 Roemead Road at Green Ore.

Engineers, undertaking a safety study, then filled the sinkhole with nearly…

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