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A woman fears the blemishes on her face and arms left by 200 bed bug bites may “never go away” after she was attacked by the insects in a Blackpool hotel.
Sharon Haslam, fled the Calypso Hotel last month with her pal Marian Pearson after they woke up to find themselves covered in an itchy rash.
The pair, who are both in their sixties, found droplets of blood covering their bedding and a live bed bug crawling around next to them.
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Sharon said her and Marian made a last minute booking at the hotel for two nights, costing £170, so they could join eight friends for a birthday bash in the resort town on September 8. The 65-year-old said they’d now received a full refund from their travel agency Booking.com, along with £100 in compensation, but still feel scarred from the experience.
Now she has warned others of the dangers of the pests as fears grow they're already on the march from Paris, prompting a deep clean of seats on London's tube network.
Sharon said: “Some of the bites have turned into purple marks. I don’t know if they are going to go – I think I’m going to be marked all down my arm. We are on four weeks already, and I’ve still got a big red mark on my face, under my eye. And in total honesty, it’s made me paranoid.
“If I get up to go to the toilet in the night, normally I would just go to the loo with the light off. Now I will turn the lights on and check the bed. They live under skirting boards, and they lay their eggs in the seam of the mattress.
“They don’t come out during the day, they come out in the dark… They see you as a meal, and they
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A local pest control firm say they have seen a surge in reports about bed bugs. Abbie Glover, Director of Pest Control Manchester, who work across Greater Manchester and East Lancashire, says they have seen a jump of between 30 and 40 percent in people contacting them about the bugs in the last month.
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