The RAC said many roads “resemble the surface of the moon” after receiving 4,694 call-outs for vehicles likely damaged by potholes between January and March.

Local authorities in the East are scrambling to repair thousands of potholes across the region as its estimated a pothole is filled every 19 seconds in the UK.

At-seat sockets on some of Greater Anglia's brand new fleet of trains have not been working since January, after a technical fault was detected.