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A woman who had to have her leg removed after a being injured in The Smiler rollercoaster crash at Alton Towers has pledged to support other amputees at a new NHS facility.

Speaking a decade on from the incident at the Staffordshire theme park, Leah Washington-Pugh told Nottinghamshire Live she still sometimes wishes she had a "normal life" - but is "lucky to be where I am now".

She and her now-husband Joe Pugh were aged just 17 and 18 when their Smiler carriage rammed into another on June 2, 2015, and were two of 16 victims given compensation for the crash by operator Merlin.

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"It was a massive shock, obviously, for everybody that's experienced not just a traumatic event but then to also become an ampute

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