Edinburgh nurse and mother of two, Heather Packwood sustained a fractured jaw and broken teeth after she was thrown from her bike last month when she passed over a pothole on Bridge Road.

This week her husband, Steve Packwood, said he is ‘shocked’ to see that no efforts had been made to repair the pothole that caused his wife’s accident and that leaving the road unchanged presents a danger to other cyclists.

Despite the pothole being flagged to the council in August 2022, the road defect was (and still is) categorised as low risk, meaning its repair falls within an unspecified time scale under ‘programmed work.’