An obese Scots cat who struggled to walk after stealing food from neighbours has shed half his body weight.
08.02.2022 - 22:51 / dailyrecord.co.uk
An Edinburgh woman says she is "fed up and miserable" after an accident in a Currys store destroyed her mobility scooter and left her housebound.
Frances Corbett says her scooter was chewed up by the disabled lift in the electronics retailer's Fort Kinnaird branch on January 29.
The vehicle got caught on a lip on the wall inside the lift lurching it - and Frances - forward, to husband Andrew's horror.
It cracked the plastic bumper and twisted the steering rack before the vehicle could be pulled safely away.
The 68-year-old got the vehicle just four weeks ago after her COPD worsened during the coronavirus lockdown, because of a requirement to shield at the pandemic's peak.
But without the scooter she is practically housebound and couldn't join her sisters on her mum's birthday, February 8, to visit her grave - as the hillside walk to reach the headstone is now too much for her lungs.
Recounting the episode to the Record, Frances said: "I got the fright of my life. Even though it's a lift designed for them they have very little space for a wheelchair or a scooter.
"I don't know how it happened exactly but the scooter just lunged forward and I started to panic.
"Andy pulled me and the scooter back and the front was smashed in."
With the scooter undrivable Frances has been left housebound. Andrew had to borrow a wheelchair to get her out of the house for a family funeral last week after losing a relative to Covid.
In the 10 days [as of February 8] since the incident, the couple had been yet to hear back from the company to discuss covering the costs of the scooter repair.
Frances, from the East Craigs area, added: "I want an apology and to be able to go out again.
"I only got the scooter a few weeks ago after my occupational
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