Dolls' heads have been popping up in a large pothole in a road.

Submerged chest deep in water, they were placed in Mill Lane, Swindon, by local resident Neville Daytona.

The father-of-three said he was fed up with the crater being "barricaded off for months" and had turned to "doll power" to get the hole filled.

The council said the pothole had kept reappearing after being fixed several times. Highways England would be fixing the "underlying issue", it added.

The first "rustic" looking mermaid doll appeared on the motorway bridge across the M4, three weeks ago - much to the amusement of local drivers.

But a week later Mr Daytona said "someone took her" and she had to be replaced by another "Lady of the Holes".

"I get them from charity shops, they're just the heads so I don't have to cut any dolls in half," he said.

"But I thought she needed a hat so I was wandering around the shops with this head looking and finally got a bow."