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Tuesday 5 February 2008
Ballroom dancers' fury as council carpets community centre floors - because of risk of injury
You won't catch the professionals from Strictly Come Dancing attempting to display their moves on a patch of carpet.
But that could be the fate of amateur dancers in Blackpool after their traditional shiny floors fell foul of health and safety experts.
Groups of pensioners meet regularly at community centres across the resort to enjoy a few waltzes or other gentle routines, and they find the polished parquet is the perfect surface.
Now, however, the floors are all being carpeted over because the local council says the risk of people slipping over on them is too great.
It admits that this has scuppered the dancers, but claims the non-stick surface is more suitable for other activities - such as karate.
Baffled locals said they couldn't remember anyone hurting themselves on the floors and accused bureaucrats of showing a lack of common sense.
Ah but now they will be at risk from carpet burns!!!!!
full report
But that could be the fate of amateur dancers in Blackpool after their traditional shiny floors fell foul of health and safety experts.
Groups of pensioners meet regularly at community centres across the resort to enjoy a few waltzes or other gentle routines, and they find the polished parquet is the perfect surface.
Now, however, the floors are all being carpeted over because the local council says the risk of people slipping over on them is too great.
It admits that this has scuppered the dancers, but claims the non-stick surface is more suitable for other activities - such as karate.
Baffled locals said they couldn't remember anyone hurting themselves on the floors and accused bureaucrats of showing a lack of common sense.
Ah but now they will be at risk from carpet burns!!!!!
full report
Deadly Italian ski prank devastates family
Surely One for the Darwin awards web site or decisions have consequences or what goes round comes round!!!
Mr Monk, 46, died from severe head and chest injuries at the resort of Sauze d'Oulx, west of Turin, after he and two friends used rubber matting they had taken from a safety barrier to slide down a slope. They careered straight into barriers at the bottom of the piste and Mr Monk suffered fatal injuries while Richard Watkins, 41, of Hatfield, Herts, was hospitalised. Alan McGregor, 46, of Ware, needed medical attention.
He hit the post at exactly the spot where the crash mat had been stripped from. Italian police said the men had all been drinking.
full story
Mr Monk, 46, died from severe head and chest injuries at the resort of Sauze d'Oulx, west of Turin, after he and two friends used rubber matting they had taken from a safety barrier to slide down a slope. They careered straight into barriers at the bottom of the piste and Mr Monk suffered fatal injuries while Richard Watkins, 41, of Hatfield, Herts, was hospitalised. Alan McGregor, 46, of Ware, needed medical attention.
He hit the post at exactly the spot where the crash mat had been stripped from. Italian police said the men had all been drinking.
full story
Monday 4 February 2008
England's green and pleasant land
Roll on summer, and lets hope it will be warmer and drier than last year
Thursday 24 January 2008
A good friend and neighbour
I am trying my hand at portrait photography, this a recent attempt using a bounced flash
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Getting your round in
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