PENSIONER Margaret Rendle has been left with a broken wrist, cracked ribs and two black eyes after falling victim to Marlborough's pavements.

It is the second time in a year that Mrs Rendle, 71, from Kingsbury Street, has ended up in hospital after tripping on the pavement in the High Street.

Last year she gashed her leg and knee when she tripped over a raised kerbstone at the junction of Kingsbury Street with the High Street, just past Oxfam.

On Wednesday last week she came a cropper on the footpath on the lower side of the High Street as she walked from Smith's greengrocers along to the Post Office.

Mrs Rendle said: "I was walking between the Green Dragon pub and Nat West bank and I was pulling my shopping trolley behind me.

"The next thing I knew I was falling forwards after catching my foot on something.

"I put out my left hand to save myself as I fell and that is how I hurt my wrist. My face went wallop on to the pavement."

Her husband drove her to hospital. She suffered a badly bruised nose, severe bruising beneath both eyes, cracked ribs and a fractured scaphoid bone in her wrist.

Mrs Rendle said she tripped at a point where a gully runs across the pavement between the Green Dragon and the Nat West bank.

She has contacted a firm of specialist claims lawyers who have asked for all the details of her accident and photographs of the location.

She said: "It doesn't matter where you walk in Marlborough, pavements are a disgrace."

Wiltshire County Council said it was sorry to hear of Mrs Rendle's fall.

He said: "The pavements in Marlborough are regularly inspected and there have been no problems reported to us recently. Any problems raised with us by Mrs Rendle will be fully investigated."