Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Maya Angelou ☺🌈🌄🌌🌏🌍🌎
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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there is a lot more to this story than the headline suggests, ddc were following nationally agreed guidelines and ms mcfarlane refused to speak with council officers on the subject, preferring to run to the press instead.
Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
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I understand Howard, but how can the pic of her dads headstone appear on FB with all the details on it? Is that not a bit respectless?
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Maya Angelou ☺🌈🌄🌌🌏🌍🌎
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i must admit that i had no knowledge of the alleged photo until you mentioned it heike.
what i do know is that the subject of health and safety was raised on facebook, the complainant went into one despite the ddc cove being sympathetic and giving a name and direct line number to ring to talk things through.
when i tried to intercede i was accused of working for "dover council" sic.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I have not read the story but what an awful experience for this woman. Because of Health and Safety issues with toppling graves and people being killed and injured, graves all over the country are being tested in council run cemeteries to ensure they are stable. Whilst it is awful to see beautiful memorials taken down it would be far worse if they killed someone. Sometimes I have found H&S over the top, but that's a whole other story. They should have contacted the woman to inform her and not used the photo without her permission. I photograph many Victorian graves but always obscure names unless it's a well known celebrity grave i.e. Marilyn Monroe, Oscar Wilde etc or I have been commissioned to take the photo for families.
