The Government has promised more than £2m to help repair Cumbria's pot holes.

The cash was announced today FRI as part of £1.2bn of local roads funding for the 2017/18 financial year.

The funding will be used to improve roads, cut congestion and improve journey times. It comes from the new National Productivity Investment Fund, announced in the Autumn Statement and the Pothole Action Fund.

In total, £70m from the Pothole Action Fund will be shared across local highway authorities in England, outside London.

More than £9m of that has been allocated to the north west - enough to fix about 170,000 pot holes - and Cumbria County Council will receive £2,053,000.

Transport Minister Andrew Jones said: "Cumbria is such a vast rural region that it is so important to commuters, families and farmers who live in the county to have good quality roads.

"These roads play a significant part in the everyday life of people who rely on them to get to their jobs and for businesses to engage with their customers, which is why this government is investing record amounts improving and maintaining highways across the country to help motorists."

As part of today's announcement, the Government is also making £175m available to upgrade some of the most dangerous roads.

These are categorised based on analysis of fatal and serious collisions and local highway authorities responsible for those roads are invited to apply.

Among them is the A592, between the A591 Windermere and A66 Penrith.