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Health And Safety Bans Floats From Swimming Pool

by | 7th, November 2008

HEALTH & Safety headline of the day: “Prudhoe pool bans floats for health & safety.”

A SWIMMING pool has stopped issuing water wings and floats – for health and safety reasons.

The flotation aids are designed to keep children safe from drowning, but staff at Waterworld in Prudhoe have been told not to hand them out.

Bosses at North Country Leisure, which runs the Northumberland pool, said inflatables and floats could pass on infections.

As can children pass on bugs. And if a few can be culled, then it is surely for the common good…

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