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Kind-hearted lorry driver delivers customer's tiles for free after his Wolverhampton firm collapses

When a Wolverhampton tile firm collapsed into administration, one woman thought her father's order for his adapted bathroom was lost.

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The driver of the lorry has been praised for making the delivery despite the impending adminstration of Tile Choice. Photo: Ashley Atkinson

But the selfless act of a lorry driver means work can continue after he delivered the tiles to the gravely ill man's home for free,

Both his daughter and the contractor adapting the bathroom in his Bilston house have praised the Tile Choice employee who dropped off the tiles on Monday.

Mandy Jordan said her father was very frail and struggling to walk, so she had been making changes to the house to make things comfortable for him, including a new walk-in shower.

After speaking to Ashley Atkinson from Atkinson Plumbing, Heating & Developments, they had ordered the tiles from Tile Choice only to later find out hours later the company had gone into administration.

She said: "We'd made the order for the tiles on Thursday, only to find that they'd gone into administration the next morning, so it was a lot for me and my mum to take on as she'd been so happy with the tiles they'd picked out, so that was a worry over the weekend.