Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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You can't escape !!
Our village is well into bunting-making for the Jubilee Celebrations as I expect others are.... a friend has just noticed the following, presumably this only refers to roads, verges and council owned property:
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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More here -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104302/Queens-Diamond-Jubilee-events-Killjoy-councils-demand-parties-5m-insurance-liability.html
All totally unnecessary and an unproductive use of people's time and money - I wonder if there has ever been an instance of death by bunting.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Death by bunting?...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunting_%28serial_killer%29
Better that Councils issue agreed guide-lines and arrange insurance themselves.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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all designed to keep bureaucrats in jobs and lording it over us, i bet the forms are complicated too.
i remember the one roger got through over cleaning up an alleyway.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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At least they can't tell me what to put on my own house !!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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don't bank on it kath, there are many examples of a bloke from a council telling people to take things down for no particular reason.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Maybe hang out the endless forms as bunting
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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These fools are best ignored. What would they do, give you a few days to take it down and then.... the event is over... They are definitely best ignored.
Jan Higgins
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Health and Safety.......... the best thing ever thought of but the worst thing ever thought of when common sense goes out the window.
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Agreed Jan.
One of my family works for the Health and Safety Executive, often on cases involving serious injury or death, and I had a lot to do with them in my job. They are very professional and serious but also pragmatic and use common sense.
Their worst enemies are the h&s jobsworths employed by companies and organisation who are looking for every eventuality to cover themselves and their employers and go to such extreme lengths that they give health and safety a bad name.
Keith Sansum1
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ray my conservative friend lol
you sum it all up well
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Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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Not up to date but, I suspect, still current.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/aug10.htm
This looks like a recycled non-story that certain elements of the press love to throw out knowing how exercised their readers will become. They also know that it undermines the good work that H&S carry out too.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Well spotted Mark, if it's still on the website then it's still current advice.
One story I saw in the last couple of days had a council insisting that for the jubilee street parties there was a risk assessment by council officers of individual lampposts, each organiser needed £5,000,000 third party insurance and a 24 hr number for callouts in case of emergency.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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That made me laugh Ray.
If lampposts are a H&S problem for street parties maybe they should be removed altogether, a drunk might walk into one on his way home from the pub.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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hope sheila is watching this thread
in july she's arranging a street party !!!! lol
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Brian Dixon
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kieth,heard you where turning up in fancy dress,tutu and hob naild boots with peaked cap to finish it off.
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Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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No Keith not a street party, we are holding a party in the hall and playground, £5 for non members and £4 for members, this entitles a fixed meal for the kids, plus a memento of the Jubilee, bouncy-castle etc, we are also looking at the same time to hold some sporting event in recognition of the olympics, but all in the air at the moment, we need some volunteers that can help us with this, lets see if there is any community spirit about
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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hold your breath on this one sheila saw that notice outside the community centre today.
not a bad community spirit around here but too many itinerants moving in with no respect for anything take the edge off it.
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