A DETERMINED pavement campaigner is celebrating a minor victory after news a 'dangerous' section of Witney town centre will be fixed.

Dorothy Holloway hailed Oxfordshire County Council's decision to spend £80,000 replacing the slabs along the High Street with tarmac, from Welch Way up to Boots.

Work on both sides of the road will take place in the next six months, but Mrs Holloway, from Minster Lovell, near Witney, believes more still needs to be done.

She has dubbed the town 'Tripney' due to the number of uneven paving slabs in the town centre, with one causing her to fall and break her arm in 2015.

Her next target is the raised slabs in Witney Market Square and she pledged to continue her fight until the entire problem is addressed.

Mrs Holloway said: "I'm delighted with what they're doing but it hasn't gone far enough.

"Until more is done, more people are going to have minor accidents.

"I'm glad that at last my continued bellyaching is finally being listened to, but only when 100 per cent improvement is achieved will I drop my campaign, and only then."

Mrs Holloway broke her arm shortly after Christmas in 2015, when her mobility walker snagged on a paving slab in Witney Market Square.

Since then, she has spent almost three years calling on the authorities to sort out the town's 'lethal' pavements.

Several elderly residents have injured themselves in the Market Square, with Mrs Holloway's husband David cutting his face and tearing a muscle in his arm when he fell near Smarts Fish & Chips Shop.

Mrs Holloway said the incident is still affecting the pair two months later, calling the slabs 'appalling and dangerous'.

She said: "I walk up there with my eyes on the ground.

"It affected me as much as him - some things I can't do without his help which has made it difficult."

The campaigner enlisted the help of Witney MP Robert Courts and Laura Price, county councillor for Witney South & Central.

Last month, Mr Courts received a letter from Paul Fermer, the county council's service manager for major transport projects and area operations, outlining the changes.

The work undertaken by the county council, alongside Witney Town Council, will see black tarmac replace slabs from the shop front to the drain channel.

It read: "This work will be undertaken alongside the town council to ensure that we keep the character of the High Street while also providing a surface that is fit for purpose with a limited maintenance burden.

"We are currently going through the procurement process and are hopeful that work will start before the end of the financial year."