A town clock will have to be replaced after 150 years because it has been ruled too dangerous for someone to climb its tower to wind it up.
14th August 2008
Don’t suppose they could just fix the tower.
Council officials in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, have told David Rees, the fifth generation of his family to wind the clock, that he can no longer perform his duty because it is a health and safety risk. Instead they want the clock replaced with an electric one.
Mr Rees, 68, attacked the decision, pointing out that there has not been a single recorded accident in the century and a half since the clock was erected.
Yeah, well, that doesn’t matter so much any more.