Holiday balcony fall teenager dies (From Bridgwater Mercury)

Holiday balcony fall teenager dies

1:21pm Friday 30th July 2010 in National News © Press Association 2011

A teenager who fell from the seventh floor of an apartment block in Majorca has died, the Foreign Office confirmed.

Grace Ford, 17, lost her fight for life in hospital on Thursday, 12 days after her fall in the resort of Magaluf.

The student, of Greenhalgh, near Kirkham, Lancashire, had just completed her A-levels and was holidaying with schoolfriends when the accident happened.

Her parents, Christopher and Suzanne Ford, were at her bedside when she died.