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Port Meadow risks
The peaceful scene below is an Autumnal view of Port Meadow in Oxford. I first put it up on this site on 11 January. Ten days later a 15 year old boy fell off his bike at dusk into the river Thames at...
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HSE buries its towels slip
Despite its famously frank Chairman, the Health and Safety Executive seems very coy about its widely-derided research into bathroom slippages. We investigate the missing web site entry. Poor Sir Bill...
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Risk adversity at the swimming pool
The point of a council swimming pool is to teach youngsters how to swim, from flapping around in arm-bands and their mothers’ arms, to jumping and and larking about as teenagers. In that safe...
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Banning tea, ladders and school outings
Three recent stories show us not only where the world is going but where our money is going. An art student writes to the Times to say that he had gone into college to find that he was booked in for a...
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elf’n safety kills another grand national tradition
Another one of those nice little English traditions was killed off today at Aintree. The Grand National winner is usually led into the winner’s enclosure by mounted policemen in plumed hats (see...
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BSI urges new trough for tree inspectors
One of the most despised features of the Blair-Brown years is the number of busybodies who get their noses into the trough by inciting new inspection regimes in areas which pose no significant risk....
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Lifeboats, lost cats and Wellington boots
The tail end of Summer has seen a spate of stories about minor officials with an acute grasp of the regulations and no brain. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency would rather see a girl drown in...
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Speed cameras and statistical ignorance
A new study shows that government claims about lives saved by speed cameras are overstated. This is ammunition against the free-spending little people who run our local authority highways departments....
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