Broadband providers and other utility firms will be fined hundreds of thousands of pounds for leaving potholes or poor quality roads after carrying out work such as laying fibre cables.Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is setting up an inspection unit to tackle what he calls the "the plague of potholes" on the country's roads.He said: "I'm ensuring companies who create them and leave roads in a poor state can be held to account more easily - protecting drivers from unfair repair costs".The Department of Transport said that engineers fail to return roads to a minimum standard on nearly one in 10 occasions. It didn't name the worst companies, and doesn't plan to in future, claiming it's "commercially sensitive information".
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