Blame lawyers for bunting ban
By Mid Devon Gazette | Tuesday, June 05, 2012, 08:00
WHAT a load of bunting bunkum. Yet again Tiverton has been found wanting, and totally missed the spirit of the occasion.
Having had 39 years in the insurance world, I have seen and heard some far-fetched reasons regarding how damage, loss or injury was alleged to have occurred.
However, the idea of a cloth or plastic bunting falling in high winds and causing a cataclysmic incident involving a circular bus in Fore Street, just about beats them all.
This, according to your May 29 issue, is a "worse case scenario" attributed to the council.
What a load of drivel as a reason for not having across the street decorations of the type being displayed in hundreds of streets in towns and villages across this county and beyond.
Tiverton always loses out – more often than not because some silly nonsense overtakes common sense.
Millions will focus on celebrating 60 years of unstinting, tireless and selfless service from a truly wonderful lady, and her excellent non-nonsense consort, Prince Philip. Erecting bunting is happening widely throughout Devon and the kingdom. I can do no better than refer to what has taken place at Lynton on our North Coast, where bunting criss-crosses the mains streets, which unlike our silly little town, also has traffic flowing beneath all of it, including buses from a major national coach holiday firm who use their local hotel.
So, have Lynton, Sidmouth and countless towns got different insurance companies, or more pro-active town councils?
This epitomises how we have declined as a nation during Her Majesty's reign. In 1952 no one would have been daft enough to consider suing if a cotton flag had fallen on them! After the privations of the war anyone contemplating such action would have been told to grow-up and get on with it. Mind you, back in those days we didn't have as many shyster lawyers trying to milk a situation.
BRIAN HOOPER Westleigh Tiverton
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I look back at the olden days where you see people celebrating in mass and think to myself how great it must have been back then when it was so much easier to do things. It's a great shame they didn't put bunting up, I know they had a cherry picker ready and waiting to get it up which had been kindly donated use by Travis Perkins but alas was not needed due to being told the town was not allowed to have them streaming the streets - a shame indeed. Feel sorry for those who made the bunting for all their hard work which has just been a major disapointment in the end.
By Lewis_Clarke at 04:53 on 06/06/12
ReportI recall the decorations in Gold Street and Westexe Corner the large displays across the streets. We are going backwards not forwards,how sad !!
By DerekHerniman at 10:23 on 05/06/12
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