A woman has hit out at highways bosses after breaking her ankle tripping on potholes she had complained about months before.

Carol Beard was left wearing a plaster cast and had to go off work after falling in an alleyway behind her home on Paddock Street in Oswaldtwistle in December.

Carol, who works as an assistant radiographer at the Royal Blackburn Hospital, said she was angry that the potholes had not been repaired.

The 58-year-old, who lives on the road, said: “I am furious because it could still easily happen to someone else - nothing is being done about it. For me this has been terrible, I have got crutches and a big snow boot on my leg.

“I don’t want anyone else to have to go through what I have gone through.”

Carol said she had reported the issue to her ward councillor Peter Britcliffe in October.

Coun Britcliffe said he had made county hall aware of this issue on several occasions.

He said: “I am appalled by what has happened. I told the county council that they needed to come out and they told me that they had no money to do anything about it.

“I again took this issue to the three-tier forum and told them that something needed to be done urgently.

“I have heard off other people in the area with complaints about potholes and what is county hall doing about it?”

Lancashire County Council bosses said they will inspect the road and added that repairs had been carried out to some potholes on the street.

Ray Bennett, highways engineer for Hyndburn, said: “We will inspect the highway to see if any further repairs are needed.

“Some potholes were reported on this road in May 2013. We inspected the street and any that posed a risk were repaired on June 6, 2013.”