Nanny State Trumps Community
1st November 2010
For 20 years, they have carefully tended a garden at the local railway station, ensuring that their pretty village shows its best side to visitors arriving by train.
Despite having a licence to tend the garden on a disused platform, railway inspectors told them their activity was unsafe.
But now, members of the Women’s Institute in Bucknell, Shropshire, have been told to down tools by Network Rail due to health and safety rules.