Students compensated after suffering injuries due to potholes

A number of school students in north Wales have been awarded compensation for injuries they suffered as a result of potholes.

According to reports in the Daily Post, one pupil was handed a sum of more than £3,000 over such an incident at Ysgol y Castell in Rhuddlan.

Meanwhile, a teacher at St Asaph's Ysgol Glan Clwyd was also hurt by a similar road defect and received £2,000.

According to a spokesman for Flintshire's freedom of information department, slips, trips and falls are the cause of most of the compensation claims filed by students and teachers in the area.

He added: "[The accidents] happened at a range of schools, including primary and high schools [and involved] slips, trips and spills on cobble stones, kitchen and dining room floors and equipment falling on to a person."

Flintshire is the largest populated county in north Wales, with the council providing services for around 147,000 people.