Reading Borough Council's Cabinet has given their approval to a multi-million pound plan to bury the Inner Distribution Road.

The lead councillor for transport Tom Crisp welcomed the move. "It's been a bloody disaster for us, so we're going to take it out the back of the Civic Centre and shoot it. Unfortunately we've spent all our budget on the enabling works for the scrapped one way system, so it will have to be a shallow grave. The good news though is that Mandy and Beth Jordache of Brookside Close have promised to help out. We just hope that someone out walking their dog doesn't discover it and try to dig it up again at election time."

However, moves to hide the remains of the IDR under a patio have been dropped. The new plans will see the patio replaced by decking over the IDR, but it does now mean that Tommy Walsh will be able to do the work for free as part of the next series of Ground Force.