The state of potholes on the Isle of Cumbrae was raised after last week’s ‘News’ story on pothole problems in Largs.
In fact, locals took ‘pot-shots’ at the state of some island roads after a picture was posted on Twitter of one such example at Kames Street.
Crawford Gillen remarked: “This particular pothole is large enough to plant a lovely perennial!”
And bus driver Robert Wilson responded: “It looks more like a photo NASA published from Jupiter”
After the mosaic of Largs potholes on the main road last week, Crawford added: “Don’t forget Millport - it’s atrocious!”
However, there is some good news with road improvements on the west side of the island.
On Cumbrae’s B896, a total of £44,000 is to be spent on road improvements.
Howard Street between Church Hill Street and Reid Street is also to benefit to the tune of £18,000, while Marine Parade (Ninian St to Ferry Road) is to receive £21,000 for carriageway resurfacing.
North Ayrshire Council are responsible for the maintenance of the adopted local road network as well as its other non-adopted road assets. The overall carriageway resurfacing budget for North Ayrshire is £1.85m, with an overall £3,944,750 projected for next year’s roads maintenance programme by North Ayrshire Council.
North Ayrshire Council has a statutory obligation under the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 to manage and maintain its public road network. The adopted road network within North Ayrshire has a total length of 1034km.
The core roads assets are currently estimated at a value of approximately £1.7 billion.
There are various types of surfacing materials and processes available depending on the particular road type, location and level of existing deterioration. Options available for treatment include preventative measures such as surface dressing, micro surfacing or asphalt preservation. Resurfacing options such as screeding, resurfacing (inlay and overlay), retread and overlay and depending on the severity of deterioration full reconstruction may be the most effective option.
* Anger was expressed by islanders over fly-tipping at Farland Point - including two tents!
One islander said: " It took over an hour to bag it all. I was lucky that I met a lovely family on holiday from Lincolnshire and they helped me carry the bags to the bin at the road. A big thank you to all as I would have needed at least three trips."
The matter was also reported to North Ayrshire Council via their ReportIt app.
Items left at the location included  socks, pants, bedsheets, empty neon dye tubes and cloths
* Progress seemed to be taking place at last at the seafront shelter next to Newton Beach with work taking place this week.