Italians devise clever way of highlighting local authorities' shame

As we all know, a combination of cold weather and laughably bad British road building has left the nation's highways littered with potholes.

Generally these are nothing worse than an uncomfortable nuisance, but given enough ice, water, time and pressure, and the common pothole can become a yawning chasm in the tarmac.

Almost indistinguishable from its smaller brethren, the megahole sits in the road waiting to snare the front wheel of each and every unsuspecting motorist who isn't concentrating with the intensity of Lewis Hamilton.