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Severn Trent Water has been ordered to pay more than £43,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to eight offences relating to the unsafe implementation of traffic management measures across Shropshire.
Botched repairs or ‘street scars’ degrade local high streets and town centres, damaging local pride. But there is a way to fix this, writes Nicholas Boys Smith