Burst pipes mean holiday in Spain
By
ROBIN CHARTERIS
in London A Cheshire mother and her three children relaxed on Spain’s Costa Blanca this montif while her house insurers picked up the bill. Burst pipes in Mrs Vai Morris’s home caused damage estimated at £4OOO ($11,200) and made the place uninhabitable. The insurance company failed to find her rented accommodation elsewhere
and found that the bill at a nearby hotel would have been £2OOO ($3600). A check with travel agents revealed that two weeks full board in Spain on a package holiday would cost just £676 ($1893) for Mrs Morris, aged 37, and her three teen-age children. .“As far as we are concerned, it is a great saving sending them to SpaiA" said a spokesman for General Accident, Ltd,
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Press, 24 February 1987, Page 32
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