BUNGLING workmen fitted a new toilet bowl for Ken Pitts - then found the door wouldn't shut.

They didn't get bogged down. Instead, they cut a piece out of it.

Council tenant Ken, 78, went potty. He told the Oxford Mail: "It was a botched job. The door ended up with a hole in and the seat still had to be lifted to close it."

West Oxfordshire District Council sent contractors to Ken's bungalow in The Fosseway, Brize Norton, in October to put in a shower for Ken's disabled wife Emily - who has since died - but they spotted the loo was cracked.

"They got a new one and plumbed it in," said Ken. "Unfortunately, they left the door open while they were doing it and when they came to shut it, it wouldn't close."

Workmen have now put in a new bowl and door. Melanie Proudfoot, council spokesman, said: "We've apologised to Mr Pitts for the inconvenience. It was not our own employees but a contractor."

To spare his blushes he has not been named.

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