Big tents near coastguard station

• Guest 1875

  • Registered: 6 Oct 2016
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  13 January 2017     09:03323510
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  Does anyone know why there are 2 big marquees along the road between Castle and St Margarets?
• Andy B

  • Location: dover
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  13 January 2017     15:59323530
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  Why would anyone want to be in a marquee at this time of year?
• Guest 1967

  • Registered: 13 Jan 2017
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  13 January 2017     16:54323532
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  Could be for the ultra marathon race tomorrow? It's been cancelled due to H&S concerns though, so I'm surprised if their race HQ is still up there.
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• Reginald Barrington

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  13 January 2017     17:48323537
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  The answers:
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw--uyYQL8uvb2xvZE1rMlBPMUE/view
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• Jan Higgins

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  13 January 2017     18:29323538
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  Right or wrong it is not for me to say regarding H&S but surely the organisers know what is safe as do those taking part.
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  13 January 2017     18:54323539
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  I have some sympathy with the Health and Safety coves on this one, we all go off at them because they seem to put a dampener on so many things but the conditions underfoot up on the cliffs are icy with strong winds forecast for tomorrow. A couple of weeks back two twins fell from there and it is now thought that they may have been blown of the edge by strong winds and if a tragedy happened tomorrow heads would roll at Health and Safety. It seems like most of the competitors will go ahead unofficially tomorrow.
• Reginald Barrington

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  13 January 2017     19:18323541
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  With a large number of competitors still likely to run the various courses all they've actually achieved is to take away course marshalls, first aid points and emergency assistance that would have been located at various points around the course Making the whole undertaking vastly more dangerous.
  I'm with Jan when you participate in extreme events you know the risks you are taking.
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