Disabled pensioner had to have teeth fitted in car park

A pensioner had her new dentures fitted in a car park because a dentist's car was blocking disabled access to the surgery.

Eighty-one-year-old Agnes Brown, of Bierley, Bradford, said she was aghast when the car could not be moved, meaning she could not get past on her electric scooter to get up a ramp and in through a back door at Wakefield Road Dental Surgery.

Mrs Brown, who lives at Bierley House Avenue and was desperate to replace her old pair of false teeth, which had been repaired with superglue, said she was disgusted with how she was treated.

The pensioner, who has just got over a mugging and has had one leg amputated and has the use of only one arm, had travelled one-and-half miles from her home to the surgery on her electric scooter for her appointment.

She said: "I really felt humiliated, I don't feel I can go back. I've had a terrible few years. I had to get my leg taken off because of blocked arteries, I lost the use of my left arm when I got knocked off my scooter by a van and I was mugged at home. Now all this."