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Updated 13.02
A WOMAN WAS taken to hospital after falling into a giant hole that appeared in the pavement of a London street this morning.
Witnesses reported screaming before the woman disappeared into the hole outside a café in the west London suburb of Fulham, the Evening Standard reported.
She was pulled from the hole and taken to hospital, while the area was cordoned off.
Kate Sissons, who posted images of the hole on Instagram, posted that both the woman and her pram fell into the hole.
“It just happened! Loud scream and all I could see was the pram,” she said.
“Ambulance and fire on way to get her out. Scary. V v scary.”
However authorities and other eyewitnesses have denied there was a child involved, and it is not believed the woman may have been pushing a shopping trolley.
One told the Evening Standard the hole had already opened up and the area cordoned off with chairs when the woman fell.
She went to go around it and she fell. But when they rescued her she was as good as gold. She didn’t have a baby with her.”
‘Shaken, not seriously injured’
A spokeswoman for London Ambulance Service said emergency services were called to the site in North End Rd at 8.53am after reports a woman had fallen through a hole.
The patient was shaken but not seriously injured and we took her to Charing Cross Hospital,” he said.
A builder, Paul Smith, said he saw someone fall through the hole “like a trapdoor”.
“It is about a metre wide and about eight foot deep,” he said, according to the Mirror.
“I couldn’t see inside to see if it was a man or a woman but it was a person and the police were all around.”
- First published 11.47am
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Oh it’s a popularity contest now….
@marklars81: sure why not – TDs have the best pension pots in the country. Good luck to who ever wants to take on that role in the current environment!!
@marklars81: it always was , you vote for whoever you like the most
Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates spoke about this popularity contest to get to the Dail on there podcast Path To Power. There’s not a snowballs hope in hell I’d vote for someone with zero experience or who hasn’t been active in the community. This idea of random people getting selected because their on the tv or sports stars Nina Carberry or Cynthia Ní Mhurchú prime example and only getting selected because they are women and parties need to reach 40% female quota or lose funding.
@Nemethon: don’t forget Roses of Tralee n’all, they’re just so inclusive these days
@Nemethon: This quota nonsense could put me off voting for women.
If she used to work for Sky News, we know without question that she is not capable of speaking the truth… so I hope she gets soundly trounced.
@Todd Hebert: lol.
@Todd Hebert: Also she worked for RTE, BBC, UTV and Channel 4, so she’s a practiced and polished liar, she’ll fit in nicely!
@Todd Hebert: she worked for bbc. The only blithe on her CV
there was a time when a selection to run as a FF candidate was something that people fought over, those days are long gone for FF and MM thinks he’s doing a great job, he is, for himself
Ahhh FF on the pulse of the ordinary Joe & Mary. A great bunch no doubt about it
I feel sorry for sitting FF councillors in these situations. It shows how much regard they hold in party Hq’s. Parachuting in these “stars in their own minds” is a sad indictment of what parties will do in order to try and garner votes.
FF are a sham party!!!
The pull of the gravy train is to hard to resist
@Paul: . Why don’t you put yourself forward so?
@Richard Ford: I don’t like gravy. Why don’t you your obviously an ffg suckler
Fourth estate is a myth.
Other side to the story here is how Irish Journalism is now dead in the water. They are all beholden to Govt as they are all seeking jobs as PR, Advisors, Media Consultants etc. Look at Simon Harris’s appointments, all direct from Irish MSM, Newstalk, Examiner etc. RTE now beholden to Govt after the last multi Million bailout, no investigative Journalism or alternative voice now in Ireland. It’s all about controlling the Narrative. I recently listened to ladies from a certain NGO been interviewed & they stated that you must control the Narrative, it was an eye opener, nobody could be allowed disagree with them. When Hate Speech is in, we will be close to be an Authoritarian State, this is the route Putin took, now happening here. Will these journalists step down now so as to be impartial ?
Sky News, surely she is overqualified!
A very worthy candidate, I wish her all the best and happiness and success, it would be great for the country if she gets elected
@Fintan Pox: she certainly knows her onions
What her qualifications O she doesn’t need any to join FFG
@Sean O: why would you need qualifications to join a political party?
Ah Alison a Drogheda girl through and through very well respected in the Town has been with the Drogheda Independent years …I still won’t be voting for her…
It’s been jockeys, rose of Tralee winners and now Grainne Seoige and Alison Comyn. We’ve had boxers too. It’s into the age of the celebrity candidate now with name recognition seemingly the key. Some of them particularly former journalists might do a good job but some clearly wouldn’t have the first idea about politics and I wonder what they actually do when elected particularly to Europe where nobody is paying attention most of the time.
Met her a few times ,nice girl from a good drogheda family
@Rory Burns: “From a good Drogheda family”
Just like yourself Rory!! ;>)
Her career started well when she was young on light entertainment holiday type shows, went downhill from there, not up to the task of serious journalism, not at all active in the community, let’s see how stupid the people of Louth are, I’d say it’s 50 50 she gets elected, it will certainly be a barometer as to how smart or how thick the electorate are. Glad we don’t have a Mr Bobby equivalent here because FFG would surely put them forward.
Alison will be good for for Ireland and good for Drogheda. She has stayed true to her roots, always remembered where she came from and participated in making her community a better place. She will be a breadth of fresh air in Dublin.
Great that so many are stepping forward and ignoring the sad begrudger anti FF nonsense. The electorate are better educated nowadays and can see straight through the faked negativity.
As a successful main stream journalist she will be adept in being economical with the truth and therefore the perfect FF candidate !!.
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