Ann Eastman, 71, suffers from trigeminal neuralgia, a rare condition which is caused by damaged nerves in the face. The pain she suffers mimics a very severe case of toothache, and due to its rarity the condition can go undiscovered for a long time. Generally, older people develop the condition although it can be found […]
Mrs Moira Japp, 53, of Worthing, West Sussex, was on holiday in Barbados when the incident occurred in October last year. Mrs Japp had been relaxing and reading a book on the balcony of her room, and was wearing only her swimsuit, when the telephone rang and she accidentally walked into the closed French windows. […]
Marvin Christie, 23, broke his back, shattered his ankle and broke bones in his foot after he fell 60 feet down a shaft whilst doing routine landscaping work on a traffic island in Battersea. He fell after stepping on a grille covering the shaft, leading to an underground car park, which gave way. It took […]
Karol Robaczewski was cleaning the inside of a 20,000 litre fuel tank when he was engulfed by a fireball that caused severe burns and left him almost completely paralysed. Mr Robaczewski, from Morecambe, was cleaning the inside of the tank by applying a highly flammable solvent to a cloth then wiping the walls. Mr Robaczewski […]
A 48 year-old labourer fell 3 metres to the ground when a newly built first floor on a building site collapsed under the weight of concrete blocks weighing 1.6 tonnes. He sustained serious breaks in the lower leg bones and needed a major operation and a skin graft. He still cannot walk properly and is […]