A Bradford Council neighbourhood warden has been hailed by her colleagues after coming to the rescue of two residents in the space of a week.

Liz Bailey, 43, was accompanying Police Community Support Officer Andy Wade in Burley-in-Wharfedale on Tuesday, May 10, when they heard a cry of distress from an elderly woman.

She said: “At first I didn’t know what it was, but then we spotted an elderly lady who had fallen between the walls of her house and garage while moving her wheelie bin. She said she had been struck there for about an hour.”

After lifting the pensioner to her feet, the pair took her inside her home and made her something to eat and a cup of tea.

She said: “We made her comfortable and called her GP as well as contacting her son to let him know what had happened.”

An examination found the woman had been shaken and bruised by the incident but had not been seriously injured.

The police also later received an e-mail from her son thanking the pair for their help.

A week later, in Wilsden, Miss Bailey intervened to stop a 93-year-old man being run over after he was accidentally pushed over by a 4x4 reversing from a car park.

She said: “It wasn’t the driver’s fault and not the old man’s fault, he was crossing the road stooped over a walking stick and was too low for the driver to see him out of the back window of the vehicle.”

Miss Bailey rushed across the road to bang on the back of the 4x4 to make it stop.

She said: “Other people helped as well and thanks to them and the driver stopping right away, the man did not receive any serious injuries.”

Miss Davies, a former marketing and advertising manager who has been a Bradford Council neighbourhood warden for nearly two years, remained modest about her role.

She said: “I didn’t do anything more than anyone else would have done. We were just there at the right time.”

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