The Gnomes That Nearly Had No Home,

as a significant Health & Safety risk, Linda Langford, 57, was told her two six-inch garden gnomes should be moved from the front of her council flat, a welcome plaque on her wall and her doormat were also marked as serious health and safety risks, according to Sandwell council, the gnomes have stood outside Miss Langford's home in Tipton, West Midlands, for the last nine years, so you could argue that for 9 long dangerous years H & S have failed miserably to save peoples lives and those officials should be sacked for gross professional misconduct in saving our lives, or Sandwell's housing chief, Councillor Mahboob Hussain, could admit one of his officials was over zealous and fall on his sword as it was admitted that tenants in low-rise council flats should not face a blanket ban on ornaments in communal areas, 'Mrs Langford wasn't in and the officer left a note, which incorrectly asked Mrs Langford to remove the items from outside her flat, he said, but lets call in an Gnome expert, Anne Atkin said she thought the idea of garden gnomes being a fire risk was absurd, She said in all her years of collecting over 1,000 of the ornaments she had never seen one cause an accident, so thank goodness for that, the gnomes still have a home, I wonder how much all of this investigation cost the taxpayers of in Tipton, West Midlands