UK to spend extra 2.5 bln pounds on road repairs <!-- no image --> <div>Britain will spend an extra 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion)repairing 50 million potholes in roads over the next five years, the government said ahead of new finance minister Rishi Sunak's first budget on Wednesday.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=B6uXI4L_CRU:v78RymxQ2sY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=B6uXI4L_CRU:v78RymxQ2sY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=B6uXI4L_CRU:v78RymxQ2sY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=B6uXI4L_CRU:v78RymxQ2sY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=B6uXI4L_CRU:v78RymxQ2sY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/B6uXI4L_CRU" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters