Col wrote:
"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
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Graham Easterling wrote:

The council are spending £164,000 removing pebbles from the beach. One of
the reasons given was that children could fall and hurt themselves on
them. So on your point, I wholeheartedly agree!

They are removing pebbles from the beach becasue children could trip
over them??
Why don't they just remove the water from the sea becasue children
could drown in it......

I guess the pebbles wouldn't have been there if they hadn't spent
millions of pounds moving tonnes of sand from one side of the Isle of
Wight to the other. Keeps the tourists happy though :-)

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John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Jonathan Stott writes:
The council are spending £164,000 removing pebbles from the beach. One
of the reasons given was that children could fall and hurt themselves
on them.

Are you sure someone wasn't pulling your leg? I'm reminded of the bit
from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" that goes:

Nope: "A report to the cabinet stated fears that children would get hurt
playing on the shingle and that millions of tourists would stay away."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6222196.stm

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The council are spending £164,000 removing pebbles from the beach. One of
the reasons given was that children could fall and hurt themselves on
them. So on your point, I wholeheartedly agree!

You have to be having a laugh!

The pebbles on the beaches around here are protected (part of the Jurassic
Coast) and it is illegal to remove them or even take one home (though many
do).

I seem to remember a problem with Bournemouth council using sand cleaners
which were destroying the ecology and biodiversity of the beach. Are they
still doing that?
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"Nick Gardner" wrote in message
...
The council are spending £164,000 removing pebbles from the beach. One of
the reasons given was that children could fall and hurt themselves on
them. So on your point, I wholeheartedly agree!

You have to be having a laugh!

The pebbles on the beaches around here are protected (part of the Jurassic
Coast) and it is illegal to remove them or even take one home (though many
do).

I seem to remember a problem with Bournemouth council using sand cleaners
which were destroying the ecology and biodiversity of the beach. Are they
still doing that?
________________
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk


The beach in question was virtually all sand - however, when the beach was
replenished with sand from Bournemouth/Poole Bay, a lot of stones and
pebbles were brought in with it.

Jim

In uk.sci.weather on Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Graham Easterling
wrote :

I have to say (perhaps somewhat controversially) that Bournemouth is
one of my least favourite places. I remember walking along the beach,
watching some official jobsworth telling kids not to jump off a groin
into a puddle as it was dangerous.

Huh?

Not as dangerous as for the person whose groin they were jumping off
from, surely?
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