Pensioner on the warpath to fill the Beatles' famous Blackburn potholes

Derek Brown helped to sort them out at the time of Sergeant Pepper. Now he's back in action at the age of 77It's one of the immortal lines of 20th century pop music – '4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire'. Mystery, curiosity and oddity come together in the lyrics of the Beatles' A Day in the Life – along with a feast of subsequent media items which must be the bane of Blackburn with Darwen's highways department.They'd make a song of their own, comparing the state of the town's roads on scor...

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