Walsall road reopens as sinkhole repair finishes
A main road in the West Midlands is back open again after work to repair a huge sinkhole finished a week ahead of schedule.
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Severn Trent had warned that repairs would take at least a month to complete after the four-metre wide and three-metre deep hole opened up when one of its sewers collapsed, but the work finished on Sunday morning after just over three weeks.
A spokesman for Severn Trent said: "Many thanks to everyone for being patient, and great work from our teams that have been working seven day weeks to get everything done."