On Fri, 09 May 2008 09:41:08 +0100, Brave New Britain
wrote:
>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
>Or, http://tinyurl.com/6dbsqk
>
>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.
>[...]
I agree with the others...I come from very near Selkirk (not that that
makes a difference!). Next they'll be saying they can't use barbwire
fences around prisons incase the inmates hurt themselves trying to get
out!
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