AN elderly Teignmouth woman suffered two fractures and spent nine weeks in hospital after tripping over a paving slab in the town centre.

She is still suffering from the effects of the fall a year later, but Margaret Sheppard, 74, has been refused any compensation – because, legally, the defective slab was not raised high enough above the street to be regarded as dangerous.

'I am very angry about it because there is no doubt I tripped over the raised slab in Bank Street.

'I broke my right wrist and left knee, and was in agony for a long time, I had had to spend over two months in Newton Abbot Hospital recovering.

'The bones have healed, but it still hurts on some days,

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