A BRASSED-OFF resident has bought her own street light after claiming the lamp outside her home has not worked for at least four months.

Gillian Moore, of Roegreave Road, Oswaldtwistle, says her mother-in-law and three-year-old son, who suffers from arthritis, have tripped and fallen in the darkness on the corner opposite Gaskell Textiles.

She has complained to Hyndburn Council and Norweb but says she is still in the dark about when the light will be working.

Mrs Moore said: "I'm disappointed and absolutely disgusted.

"I'm going to put my own light on the outside of the house to put them to shame and feel like sending them the bill.

"I pay my Council Tax like everybody else so why should I be without a street lamp all these months."

Mrs Moore said that when the street light was pulled down by a wagon four to six months ago, a new lamp was put up but it has never worked.

She added: "You can't see where you are going, and where they have dug up is not levelled off properly.

"Norweb and Hyndburn Council are blaming one another and nothing seems to be getting done.

"I must have phoned each one a dozen times and keep being fobbed off.

"It's getting beyond a joke on dark winter nights, especially being on a gable end with cars coming whizzing around the corner."

A Norweb spokeswoman said: "There appears to have been some oversight on the part of our contractors which we are investigating.

"We have ordered the immediate connection of the street lamp which should take place within the next couple of days, and apologise for the delay."

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