Weedy performance

So it's true. As I was tipped off in a phone call a couple of weeks ago, when Nottinghamshire County Council resurfaced a road in a residential street, they carefully laid the new surface around weeds that were growing in the gutter.

Here's the evidence, which I snapped on Saturday.

One witness said that when he challenged the workmen, he was advised: "We just do what we're told."

The location, incidentally, is Queen Street, Balderton.