Health & Safety Strike Again,

this time over cricket,

it is true, a few cricket balls have landed in the tennis court next to Lymington Cricket Club’s ground, to guard against this happening again the club has put up a net fence to stop them from landing there in the future, but then the council’s health and safety inspectors stepped up to the crease, now – despite no record of a spectator ever having being hit – the south coast club has been threatened with eviction unless it pays £50,000 for a net around its entire boundary and designates someone to shout a warning about high-flying balls,


Lymington is one of the world’s oldest cricket clubs, with a history spanning more than 200 years, it has played at its current home, The Sports Ground, for 175 years, but this did not worry Councillor Penny Jackman, when she was overheard saying to a colleague: ‘oh let’s just shut the buggers down.’ how very sporting of you Ms Jackman, the club’s fate will be decided when the full town council votes on the committee’s recommendation on November 30, lets hope the totally bias Ms, Jackman gets stumped!

Asda a retail store in the UK banned chef Marisa Zoccolan from buying two limes in another story, the reason give was that they could be used as weapons! the 31-year-old popped into the supermarket close to her home in Wallsend, North Tyneside, to pick up a few groceries, including a couple of the offending fruits, but the till then showed the message 'amount exceeded, authorisation required',


'I thought she was having a laugh when she came back and told me more than one lime is classed as a weapon, I asked her why, was it because they can be thrown? but no, it’s because they contain citric acid which could be squirted in someone’s eyes', there must be a growing menace of drive-by fruiting in in Wallsend, if I lived there I would keep an eye out for it!


there are of course other supermarkets who clearly do not want customers to return, some other super markets in the recent limelight, excuse the pun,


pregnant Janet Lehain complained to Sainsbury’s in Clapham, Bedfordshire, in August 2009 after a deli counter worker refused to sell her a lump of cheddar because it was dangerous for her to eat in her condition,

CO-OP staff told David Houlgate he couldn’t buy a reduced-price bunch of tulips for his daughters in May last year because they were out of date and must be thrown away,

Asda (again), apologised to a shopper last month after refusing to let her buy wine – because her teenage daughter was present,

Becky Thompson, 24, was banned from buying “dangerous” wooden kebab skewers – because she couldn’t prove her age at Tesco in Dundee,


and finally a assistant refused to let a six-year-old girl help her mum Lisa Innes, 36, buy a box of Christmas crackers – because of laws banning the sale of explosives to children, and shops wonder why some customers never come back!