If you go down in the woods today, you're in for a big surprise…. But not half as big as the one you'll get if you go down to Runnymede Gardens. Someone has put ghastly blue-painted scaffold-type railings around the stone bridge over the stream. It seems it is the Health & Safety morons gone mad. Apparently, the bridge is a slip hazard. Oh yes? From what I have heard, the bridge has been perfectly safe for decades. In any case, do we really need nannying to this extent? It seems to me to be another example of the North Devon District Council (NDDC) in their ivory tower in Barnstaple foisting upon us yet another thing we don’t want. Is it possible for us in Ilfracombe to seek independence from them?
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