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Pensioner makes compensation claim

A pensioner from Erith in London is pursuing a leading supermarket chain for personal injury compensation after allegedly suffering a debilitating back injury whilst out shopping.

The elderly man claims he fell on spilt liquid whilst perusing the aisles of a supermarket in Orpington and has had to use two walking sticks ever since.

The supermarket giant, however, denies the allegation and insist it has no record of the accident happening. They say there is no CCTV footage of the incident and also insist that their accident book has no mention of the 2004 fall.

Now, after three years of wrangling with the supermarket, the pensioner is appealing for two youths who apparently witnessed the fall and signed the store's accident book to come forward.

He claims there is a cover up and, asked by the media about his personal injury compensation claim , said, "I have been telling the truth from the very beginning. I am going to win because I am in the right."

A spokesman for the supermarket chain said, "We have got no evidence of this having happened in the store and the matter is now with our solicitors."