A road repair job due to start today has flabbergasted local residents. Flabbergasted, we tells ya!Why?  Because in order to repair a stretch of road less than half a mile long, a 47-mile diversion has been put in place.

It’s the work of Somerset Council, which has commissioned repairs on a stretch of Church Street that would ordinarily take less than a minute to drive through. However, the diversion will cost about two hours, according to an MSN story.