Rip Old-Fashioned Common Sense ; As the Mail's Brilliant Sketchwriter Presents a Panorama Investigation Into the Curse of Health and Safety... Killed by the Eif 'N' Safety Zealots Who've Spent Pounds 2.5m Testing Wonky Gravestones to Make Sure They Don't Fall On Anyone

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WIDOW Mavis Field was intending to trim the grass around her first husband's grave when she received a terrible shock. As she approached the grave in Worksop, Notts, she could see it had been speared by a long wooden stake. Its carved headstone had been strapped by heavy-duty bindings and a garish, yellow sticker slapped alongside.

'WARNING!' it read. 'This Memorial is Unsafe.

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Rip Old-Fashioned Common Sense ; As the Mail's Brilliant Sketchwriter Presents a Panorama Investigation Into the Curse of Health and Safety... Killed by the Eif 'N' Safety Zealots Who've Spent Pounds 2.5m Testing Wonky Gravestones to Make Sure They Don't Fall On Anyone

Should not be tampered with. Essential maintenance required.' Retired driving instructor Mrs Field, who 'shed a tear or two' that day, is one of thousands of bereaved Britons trampled underfoot by our increasingly controversial Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Her husband's grave had been 'tampered with' (to use their own terminology) by the local council on HSE advice about safety in municipal graveyards.

The Worksop cemetery now looks like something from a Dra...

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