Doing the Pancake Walk
Health and Safety struck yesterday in St Albans:
With their frying pans primed, the teams were set to sprint to victory.
Hundreds of well-wishers lined the course expecting the usual thrills, spills and slip-ups of the annual pancake race. But the jolly mood turned sour when a new health and safety rule was announced moments before the start – no running.Spectators at the Shrove Tuesday event in St Albans, Hertfordshire, booed the city’s tourism manager Charles Baker as he explained there were fears competitors might fall over.
Mr Baker announced: ‘We have a new set of rules today due to the wet weather conditions and health and safety regulations.’
After outlining the running ban, he added: ‘It is a genuine health and safety concern. People fall over in the dry – they will certainly fall over in the wet.
Granny Thrown Out of Pub for Wearing Beret
To think that within living memory this country ran an Empire:
A crippled grandmother has been barred from a gastro pub because she refused to remove her beret.
Barber Threatened with Legal Action for Recycling Hair
Big Brother Watch is reporting a story from the Blackburn Citizen…
A hairdresser called Jeff Stone has taken home the cut hair from his salon for 40 years, to use on his compost heap. The council has now said that this is against the law, because it is ‘trade waste’. He and other shop-keepers have been forced to pay the council £100 for trade waste sacks to be collected from his shop to comply with recycling guidelines, with the bags going into landfill rather than being used in the sensibly and environmentally useful disposal he has used for so long.
…and is rightly angry about it.
Mr Stone has also been told that he cannot take home newspapers he buys for his customers to read, since they were bought with cash from the till.
Some days I think that we are on a national suicide mission.
