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A pancake race in North Yorkshire has been axed over fears about the entrants health and safety.
School children run down a cobbled street flipping their pancakes as soon as the city cathedral's bell chimes 11am, well that was what used to happen anyway.
Organisers are said to have scrapped the popular event because of "mounting costs and bureaucracy linked to health and safety rules."
One of the councillors behind the event shares my sentiments on the matter, "Health and safety has just gone too far. It makes you think twice about even trying to hold events like this, even though they are extremely popular, especially amongst children."
So by the time I'm old enough, or wise enough, to have children, I'll look forward to allowing my children no fun whatsoever...
A pancake race in North Yorkshire has been axed over fears about the entrants health... more
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China - An explosion and fire at a sulphuric acid plant in Kunming in the Yunnan Province has killed five and injured thirty-two. Two other workers are missing in the aftermath of the fire, which burned for four hours before being extinguished.China - An explosion and fire at a sulphuric acid plant in Kunming in the Yunnan... more
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A middle-aged man from the Manchester area was in a critical condition this morning, after falling into a vat of toxic potassium cyanide, a rapidly acting poison which causes death by cardiac arrest.A middle-aged man from the Manchester area was in a critical condition this morning,... more
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