I HAVE sympathy with Tim Brennan (LET, September 16).

I also tripped up - in Duckworth Street, Darwen - and got in touch with a solicitor, who wrote asking the council to investigate.

They did. With me and my solicitor present, the council men measured the tile where I tripped and they said it was only a fraction of an inch high and there was nothing I could do.

So my solicitors dropped me like a ton of bricks.

Now, I have a dislocation of my right arm which I can't use.

After seeing a consultant at Blackburn Infirmary and having had a scan I have been told that unless I have a plate in my shoulder, I will never be able to use that arm again.

I cannot hang my washing out. I have a home help because I can't use my arm. I can't carry a shopping bag.

I don't want a plate in my shoulder because I have already had a knee and hip replacement.

But no solicitor will take up my case because the tile was only a seventh of an inch too high and yet I am disabled for life.

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