When Everybody Cares About Nobody..

Read this piece of startling news on one of the british tabloids. It's really sad that no one cares anymore. Neighbours acting like strangers and they do not even bother to strike up a relationship. Minding their own business and not looking out for one another. Its really depressing looking at where the world is heading..

Woman, 85, lay dead in her flat for FIVE YEARS before anyone noticed

Last updated at 5:25 PM on 03rd July 2009

An elderly woman lay dead in her flat for up to five years, it was revealed today.

The badly decomposed body of Isabella Purves, who would have been 90 this year, was found by police earlier this week.

Officers forced their way into her flat in the respectable Canonmills area of Edinburgh after a neighbour reported water dripping through the ceiling.

They had to fight their way through piles of unopened mail behind her front door.

It is thought her pension was paid directly into a bank account and utility bills were paid by direct debit.

Police are trying to trace her relatives.

Neighbours in Rodney Street spoke today of their horror at the discovery.

Giovanni Cilia, who owns the Fioritalia florist below Ms Purves's traditional tenement flat, said he was shocked at how long it took to find her.

He said: 'How did no one notice the smell, or wonder where she was? I heard there was a big pile of letters and bills behind the door.

'I used to see her walk past the shop maybe four times a week. She would often go across the street and pick up litter to clean the place up.'

Mr Cilia, who has run the shop for 20 years, added: 'It's shocked everyone here. When I saw her she looked quite fit and healthy for her age.