A HEAVILY pregnant Largs woman says she was 'bullied' by a team of workmen who left her trapped in a town centre street.

Emma Dickson, 31, says she was intimidated and shouted at by staff from Kwik Access Scaffolding, who were working on a house near to Crawford Street where she was parked.

The Largs woman claims that she was verbally abused after politely asking for the van which was blocking her exit to be moved.

The company, who are based in Rothesay, have denied the allegations and claimed it was the mum-to-be who was rude to its workers.

Emma explained: “The truck was completely blocking Crawford Street, which is one-way and leads onto a residential road.

“The men saw me pull up and wait for them to move the truck, but it quickly became apparent that they had no intention of doing so.

“It was over 20 degrees outside and I'm seven months pregnant, so I got out the car and politely asked the workers to move their truck so that I could drive past.

“They refused, saying there was plenty of space to go around but clearly there wasn’t, and one of them said ‘can’t you see we’re working here?'.

“I tried to go around the truck but I couldn’t, and when I got back out I was met with these men laughing and swearing at me.

“After nearly 20 minutes, they eventually moved, only to block the road further along. They were incredibly rude, obnoxious and downright nasty towards me - it was quite intimidating."

A spokesperson for Kwik Access Scaffolding insisted it was Emma who had been the aggressor.

They said: “Other cars had been passing our vehicle without any difficulty.

“The lady screamed ‘move the van now’ and our driver who was on the scaffolding at the time, came down and moved it.

“She had no manners or thought for the people trying to carry out work and was incredibly rude to our employees.

“We have just come out of the hardest two years possible and it has been very difficult for small businesses to try and make a living without unfair accusations like this."

Emma has hit back at the company’s denials.

She said: “At no point did I roll my window down and shout. I was practically pleading with them whilst they were all laughing and swearing at me.

“Their version is absolutely not how it happened at all.

“I totally understand they’re a small business trying to recover after the pandemic, but allowing staff to speak to me in the way that they did won't help with that."

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