A WHEELCHAIR user ended up trapped after a road was blocked by rubbish during the bin strike - and a group of kindly school children had to come to her aid.

Lina Talbot was making her way down Sudeley Place in Kemptown, but had to go into the road due to the pavement being blocked by weeks of rubbish.

The retired doctor, from Brighton, said one of the wheels on her electric wheelchair got stuck in the air as she went off the kerb.

The 70-year-old said: “It didn’t have a ramped kerb anywhere so I would have had to go all the way up to Eastern Road.

The Argus: Lina Talbot has been in a wheelchair since she was 50.Lina Talbot has been in a wheelchair since she was 50.

“I was heading down Sudeley Place, which is my usual way. But there was no way I could get past the bins at the bottom.

“I tried to go slightly oblique, I didn’t want to hit the car. I ended up with one of my two drive wheels on the wheelchair in the air, it was just hanging in space.”

Lina realised she was unable to move the wheelchair, but luckily saw some passing students aged around 16.

And she shouted over to the youngsters from Brighton College, asking for help.

Lina said: “I looked around and there was this bunch of students coming towards me carrying guitars.

“I really had to shout, they were on the opposite side of the road.

“I said it will take four of them as I don’t want them to ruin their backs, as it’s a heavy wheelchair.

“Then they got themselves organised, they were very nice.”

Lina has been in a wheelchair since she was 50 when she had a surgery for a slipped disk, which left her with nerve damage and caused her to retire early from her career as a hospital registrar.

She added: “You know, I think sometimes older people are afraid of talking to teenagers and I think we shouldn’t be.

"Older people should talk to teenagers and vice versa.”

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