Swanley sinkhole damage funds

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A pensioner has been left "crying herself to sleep" after a sinkhole opened up across her Swanley garden, swallowing her mobility scooter.
The massive void, north Kent's fifth in a year, appeared in Oliver Road in the early hours of Thursday morning, measuring five or six metres in diameter and around three meters deep.

Two sheds fell into the hole, one of which contained, among other things, a mobility scooter - the only means of independence for 65-year-old Carole Kent, who is disabled.

Despite seeking help from Sevenoaks District Council, Thames Water and the Environment Agency, Mrs Kent and her elderly neighbours, 78-year-old Joseph Hutchens and wife Barbara, 75, have not been able to get the assistance they need.