A £10 MILLION programme to repair the borough’s roads has been given the go ahead.

Each ward will receive an equal share of the pot – £500,000 – and councillors have five weeks to work with highways officers and decide a programme of work based on engineering priority.

The residential road improvements will be paid for by a £7m loan together with £3m from the sale of council buildings. The borrowing will be funded by dividends from the local authority's shares in Manchester Airport.

Deputy leader Martyn Cox told the cabinet yesterday that the work is expected to take 12 to 18 months to complete.

Councillors also waved through multi-million-pound plans to rebuild a day centre for disabled people.

The Jubilee Centre will be relocated to the site of the former Firwood School off Crompton Way.