Cemeteries not child's play - SBC
By Andrew Keddie
Borders Today, UK: 8 May 2008
http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/Cemeteries-not-childs-play-.4059446.jp
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THE spiked railings on which a Selkirk teenager impaled himself last
month will not be removed from the town's graveyard by Scottish
Borders Council.
Instead, the local authority has issued a plea for children and their
parents not to use any of its 140 cemeteries and churchyards as
playgrounds or shortcuts.
It follows a suggestion from Selkirkshire councillor Kenneth Gunn that
the family of the injured youth should pay for the cost, incurred by
SBC, of removing or repairing the railings following the incident in
Brierylaw Cemetery on April 14.
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