A FRAIL pensioner was left stranded for hours in the wake of a fall after a telephone provider left her feeling “helpless and hopeless” without a phone line for three weeks.

Margaret Hunt suffered a fall in the kitchen of her bungalow in Barrow Hill, Goodworth Clatford, landing on the bin in the corner of the room and was unable to move.

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