AN ACCIDENT-prone mum labelled one of the country's biggest DIY disasters has hung up her tool belt for good - after breaking a wrist for the fourth time.

In 2005 Amanda Townsend, now 35, of Siddow Avenue, Clitheroe, was picked to appear on Channel Five's "Britain's Worst DIYer" Show after being nominated by her husband Andrew.

The nation's viewers saw her cause a series of DIY mistakes including blowing the electrics and flooding the bathroom of a flat provided by the show.

But now, after breaking both her wrists twice including once recently while chiseling a hole in a wall to make space for a large fridge, Amanda has decided to give up her hobby.

She said: "This is it. I am never doing it again, never!

"I absolutely love DIY, it's just that every time I do it I end up breaking a bone. I'm just not going to do it any more.

"When I broke my wrist recently I thought it was just sore, but my friend dragged me to the hospital two weeks later because I was in agony. It was broken on both sides.

"So now I am in a pot for Christmas and I look absolutely pathetic!"

Before Amanda appeared on television she had already been banned by her husband from going into the family garage where tools are kept, and her neighbours had been warned not to lend her any.

On television five couples were each given a flat to refurbish but on her first day Amanda blew the electrics in the whole building when she was knocking a wall down.

Then she drilled through a pipe, flooding a bathroom.

And even at home she makes mistakes on a large scale, for instance when she wanted to remove some shelves but ended up knocking a two-foot hole in the wall.

After the show she was given a guided tour around the B&Q superstore in Blackburn.

She added: "The problem isn't that I don't know what I am doing, but that I don't have the right tools.

"I watch all the DIY programmes on TV but I get halfway through and the ideas are stacking up in my head like Lego blocks.

"My family are so happy that I have given it up!"