MORE people have spoken out against uneven pavements in Falmouth following the Packet's report last week of two elderly women stumbling and injuring themselves in the town centre.

Three more women have told of the serious injuries they sustained when they tripped on the cobbled pavements in the middle of the town.

June Williams, 74, from Harris Court in Penryn, was left temporarily paralysed and in need of medical attention last week when she fell outside Falmouth Booksellers on Church Street.

She was treated for minor injuries by paramedics, but was suffering from bruising and shock a week later.

Mrs Williams said: "There was a car parked in the pavement and I went to walk around it, when I felt my toe catch on something.

"I put my hand out and that broke my fall, but couldn't move until the paramedics arrived.

"Now I'm beginning to ache all over. I'm really very sore, and I can't catch my breath.

"I know I'm not the only person this has happened to. If so many people are falling there must be something wrong."

Marcia Wengradt, 60, from Old Hill Crescent, is considering legal action after she broke her foot on loose cobbles outside Marks and Spencer on Market Street.

Mrs Wengradt was walking to work at Robin and Garwood Post Office when she cracked her foot on the uneven pavement.

Her foot later swelled to twice its normal size, and when she sought medical advice was diagnosed with a broken foot.

Mrs Wengradt said: "It was very frightening. It happened about three weeks ago and I haven't been able to return to work since.

"I've been told that I might be able to go back to work in about two more weeks. I contacted a solicitor and he said that I may have grounds for a claim."

And Edith Mitchell, 66, from Trevarth Road in Falmouth, was left with severe bruising to her face, a broken bone in her hand and an injured shoulder after she fell over a loose slab of concrete on Kimberley Park Road.

The accident happened two years ago, but Mrs Mitchell still suffers from stiffness and pain in her shoulder because of it.

In a letter to the Packet she wrote: "I was more or less told by my insurers that I should have looked where I was going."