A BLACKBURN firm has come to the rescue of a disabled woman who could not get her wheelchair out of her home.

Mary Thomson, who has suffered several strokes and heart attacks, spent £4,500 on an electric wheelchair last summer.

She applied to Blackburn with Darwen Council for a ramp at her front door, but was told she would have to wait until cash became available.

That meant she was stuck indoors unless her carer Fred Thomson was there to lift the wheelchair down the two steps at her door.

But when bosses at the Blackburn Concrete Company read of her plight in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, they decided to help out by building a ramp free of charge.

Steve Bretherton, part-owner of the firm, said: "She deserved the help.

"You can't have anybody stuck indoors like that. It wasn't a big job to us and we were glad to help."

Mr Thomson said: "They came round to see Mary after the story appeared in the paper and said they would do it as soon as the weather improved.

"Now they have been round to do it and Mary is over the moon. She thinks it is absolutely brilliant."

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