Family issues statement as woman, 87, dies after falling into pothole

Beryl had broken her femur and the top of her previous hip replacement, her family say

An 87-year-old woman who regularly attended church and bingo with friends has died after falling into a pothole, leading her family to call for action to tackle the UK’s crumbling roads.

Beryl Barrett passed away on Christmas Day, a week after getting her walking stick stuck in a pothole outside Warsop Town Hall, in Mansfield, on December 19. Her local MP, Steve Yemm, Labour MP for Mansfield, echoed the family’s calls for ministers to ‘take action’ amid what he called a…

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