Saturday 9 October 2010

And There Was Me Thinking There Would Be No More Health And Safety Posts,

for two years Bernadette and husband Steve Newing, had won two gold awards from Britain in Bloom in 2006 & 2007, for supply and maintaining planted pots in the street and for their immaculate garden, in 2008 Mrs Newing received the MBE for Voluntary Services in the Community, all they were trying to do was make the environment around them a nicer place to live, the council agreed as they decided to resurface the pavement in the street they live, but the council workers mumbled that due to H & S rules the council's award winning plant pots could not be moved! worse was that the council although knowing about the pots did not write to inform residents of the work to be carried out, Manchester City Council then decided to blame the residents for leaving the pots there - conveniently forgetting for that they awarded the couple the Britain in Bloom prizes!

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