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Football clubs ban vuvuzelas over safety concerns
Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Arsenal are the highest-profile clubs to announce that the plastic horns will not be allowed inside their stadia. The instrument came to prominence during the recent FIFA World Cup in South Africa where it was described as a symbol of African culture. But television stations airing the matches were flooded with complaints from viewers about the ‘droning’ noise created by thousands of fans...
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worker has his lower leg amputated
On 29 August 2008, Alan Seviour, who worked as a delivery driver for John Wainwright & Co Ltd, was carrying out some relief work on a road in Monkton, Heathfield. There are several speed ramps at intervals along the road, and a surface-paving machine was being used to lay hot asphalt on either side of the speed ramps....
85-metre scaffold collapse
Several cars were damaged after an 85-metre scaffold collapsed during high winds in a residential street in Middlesbrough. Teesside Magistrates’ Court heard that William Bedford, trading as B & J Scaffolding, had been contracted to erect scaffolding at a number of Victorian terraced houses in Jedburgh Street. The scaffolding was used by workers to...
A plastics manufacturer fined £140,000
A plastics manufacturer has been fined £140,000 in relation to the death of a cleaner at its depot in Rochdale. Manchester Crown Court heard that the incident took place at TS (UK) Ltd’s facility at the Stakehill Industrial Estate in Middleton, on 15 July 2005. Abel Lages, 38, was cleaning a spillage in the yard when a wooden pallet, containing 5...
