LABOUR has clashed with Lancashire County Council's Tory administration over its performance in repair potholes.

The authority's highways boss Cllr Keith Iddon recently hailed 'a decrease in over a third in the number of potholes being found' adding: "38 per cent fewer were found by highways inspectors or reported by the public in 2018/19 compared with two years earlier in 2016/17'.

Hos Labour opposite number Cllr Gillian Oliver yesterday claimed a report last week to the county's Cabinet Performance Committee showed that he had changed the criteria for filling a pothole.

She said: “This Conservative administration has moved the goalposts on potholes. They have purposefully excluded an unknown number of reports from the public and instructed officers to turn a blind eye to genuine defects. then they call their reducing caseload a triumph, but this kind of triumph is one made in an office on a spreadsheet, and the people of Lancashire do not find it convincing.”

Cllr Iddon said: "I have no idea what the Labour group is talking about. The intervention criteria for filling potholes have not changed."