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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Emily Johnson & Alahna Kindred

Determined pensioner WINS sit-in protest to have pole moved from outside her home

A grandma has shared her relief after successfully winning a sit-in pavement protest to get a telephone pole removed from outside her house.

Dot Bolton, 75, took part in her first protest when she refused to let contractors erect a 30-foot broadband pole directly outside her bungalow in Ramsgate Close, Sutton-on- Hull.

The pensioner wasn't deterred from giving in, even after receiving a police caution, HullLive reports.

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