Sir – During the poor weather over Christmas, a number of potholes appeared on Jubilee Way in Didcot, just as they did the year before.

A few weeks later, the council painted some lines around them, presumably in the somewhat forlorn hope that this might somehow encourage the holes to repair themselves.

Rather predictably, it has not worked and as the holes have got deeper and wider, so the paint has started to fade. I would like to urge the council to encircle them with more, stronger hole-mending paint in the hope that it might work the second time around.

Even if it doesn’t, at least motorists can identify the holes as they rather ironically slalom their way into Didcot.

Geoff Lawson, East Hagbourne