'I've slogged my guts out to pay that mortgage so I had something to leave the kids': Mum ran from her crumbling house as two terraces beside hers collapsed into sinkhole
direct to your inbox"It's my first home, I worked hard for that. I've been a single parent and I've slogged my guts out to pay that mortgage so I had something to leave the kids."Bernie Scanlon could do nothing but watch as two homes beside hers collapsed into a sinkhole in the road.The night before, a car was 'swallowed' by the gaping crater on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.Although her immediate neighbours were evacuated from their houses, Bernie claims she wasn't told to leave her home, which she says started buckling.