A disabled pensioner is calling on Bradford council to improve the access to her home.

Edith Clark, 63, of West Lane, Keighley, suffered a stroke two years ago.

She spent 14 weeks in hospital after a blood vessel burst and bled into her brain. She is now paralysed down her left side.

Mrs Clark, who is divorced, can only walk a short distance with the aid of sticks. She has to rely on one of her six children to do her shopping.

But she says her plight is made more difficult by the access problem to her home which she rents from Bradford council.

"I have to negotiate a number of steps and I can only manage the steps by going down them backwards," she says.

"It needs a ramp that myself and the other residents can negotiate safely."

Mrs Clark says Bradford council has provided the homes especially for elderly and disabled people to live in. "How do they expect us to manage without proper facilities?" she asks.

Mrs Clark would also like to see the installation of an intercom system in the homes. "If someone knocks on her door, by the time I get to it they have usually gone," she says. "If there was an intercom system where I could let people know I am in it would be so much easier."

A spokesman for Bradford council's social services directorate responds: "We are aware of Mrs Clark's request for certain adaptions to her home and we will arrange for an occupational therapist to visit her to make an assessment of her current needs."

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