Pub lunch panned

A WOMAN in a wheelchair has been refused entry to a Devon pub’s beer garden because she is “a fire risk.” Disabled Annette Boucher, 51, of Crediton wanted to have lunch in the garden behind the town’s General Sir Redvers Buller pub with her student-nurse daughter Charlotte and friend. But after the two women had pushed multiple sclerosis sufferer along a rough and overgrown path leading to the garden, they were told that they could not go in. Staff insisted that Mrs Boucher would be a fire risk because she would block the path in the event of an emergency. Pub chain J D Wetherspoon, which owns the pub, has since apologised and has offered mum and daughter a free meal which they have accepted. But it is still refusing to allow Mrs Boucher into the garden. mult-sclerosis.org 6/8/03.