Shopping trip shock as man plunges 120ft

CORDON Westfield centre A MAN was last night fighting for his life after falling 120ft from the top level of a shopping centre on to a woman below.

Shoppers and security guards rushed to help the pair, who were lying close to an escalator.

Video footage shows witnesses screaming in horror, while crowds gathered around the injured at the Westfield Centre in Stratford, East London.

Police, who are investigating, said the woman escaped with injuries that were not life-threatening.

One witness said: “They landed outside the food court, which is the busiest place. It didn’t look good.”

The centre has three floors with the top one 120ft above ground. It stayed open during the incident at 4pm yesterday.

NHS patients, staff and visitors were forced to pay out £620,000 a day last year to park at hospitals.

The income from parking charges and fines in England was £226million – just 15% went back in to the health service.

NHS staff paid nearly £70million in 2017/18 to park while the sick and their relatives forked out almost £157million.

The figures released for the first time by NHS Digital come after the Mirror launched a campaign to have charges abolished to bring the country in line with the policy in Wales and Scotland.

Only £30million went towards the NHS with much of the windfall going to private firms.

That sum works out at 0.0003% of spending for England of £125billion in 2017/18 – enough to keep the NHS going for 1min and 23sec. Rob Halfon MP, who has been leading a campaign for hospital charges to be axed, said: “This is a sick tax on hard-working NHS staff.”

Previous data suggests the most expensive areas for eight hours of hospital parking are London at

£15 and Leeds, £12.90, followed by Bristol, £12, and Manchester, £10.

The £226million revenue dwarfs previous estimates.

The 85% of revenue not paid in to the NHS includes running costs, taxes and in some cases land rent.

More than 60,000 people have signed the Mirror’s petition for an end to the fees in England.

Sara Gorton, head of health at the

Dear Matt Hancock,

I back the Daily Mirror’s campaign to end the hospital car parking rip-off

SARA GORTON OF NHS TRADE UNION UNISON