MORE than £2.1m is being diverted from other projects to repair ruined Barnsley roads and help the council to rebut compensation claims.
The news comes in the same week Maureen Greenwood, 75, had surgery on a broken hip after her mobility scooter toppled when it hit a pothole. She faces weeks of rehabilitation.
Highways across the borough were left ‘looking like ploughed fields’ after severe winter weather left gaping potholes.
The latest cash will fund repairs on more than 100 stretches of road and footpath and is on top of £450,000 that has already been spent patching them up.
Mrs Greenwood, of Longfields Crescent, Hoyland, was trying to cross West Street, Hoyland, on Tuesday when she fell.
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