The Health & Safety Ladder Brigade Strike Again,

this time volunteer gardeners Brian and Janna Coomber are asked to climb down, 

and no longer tend the plant boxes they have paid for and tended for the past 10 years, the couple were given permission to decorate their local station several years ago and were even provided with high visibility bibs, but the new station manager did not like what he saw, so he has told them that their attempts to brighten up the station have got to stop,


Mrs Coomber, a retired cleaner, said: ‘I’ve been going up the ladder for years - I’m very fit for my age and when I’m up there I hold the boxes so there is no danger, I only go up three or four times a year', Mr Coomber, a retired hotel worker, added, 'We’ve never asked for anything for doing it, I must have spent thousands building the boxes and buying the seeds, let us get on with it, it’s perfectly safe, I will stand by the ladder every time Janna goes up there if it makes them happy, but don’t stop us from doing something we love', 


whilst I can see that they are putting themselves at a degree of risk surely the operators of South West Trains could ask the couple to sign some form of disclaimer, as they said, 'this is our gift to the people of Weymouth', it is a shame that the people of Weymouth will no longer be able to admire it.