Posted By Sheila EJ Keogh I think this is a shame! I went to the funniest ever gig (in a pub) some years ago, in south London, and the band (whose name I completely forget as I'd never heard of them before) actually chucked doughnuts out to the audience! It was hilarious. Yes, we picked them up and ate them too..... Those were the days................ merry Christmas, look out for flying food.....

Posted By Bob Shillabeer My oldest girl wanted to be a journalist when she left school, but went on a school trip to the local general hospital and decided to become a nurse instead, exactly how I don't know and have been wondering for about 20 years now. She is now a very qualified and senior employee of the Health trust and responsible for all thier nursing staff, best decisions are left to the kids I suspect. Attack on the media over, but it is time the H&S profession started to fight back on this sort of mis reporting to make it clear that it is not H&S but generally insurers trying to pass the blame onto others to keep thier 'get the strength of the insurance company around you' IOSH has a site trying to speak about this but what effect is it having? We all need to speak to people and put the record straight. If it's humbug say so loudly and more commonly.

Posted By stuart cross Oh yes it is!!! you've started something now Ron!!! Stuart

Posted By J Knight Oh no you're not! John

Posted By Robert K Lewis Doughnuts - My favourite Nuts Bob

Posted By Richard Altoft Our local evening paper which has strong links with our local pantomime each year reported that 10,000 children had attended the panto at the venue which had decided to ban sweet hurling and no injuries had been reported but that two old ladies had complained that a toffee nearly hit them !!!!!!!!!!!!! Seems one complaint outweighs 10,000 no injury exposures. Perhaps lessons to old ladies in how to catch toffees or a toffee allowance (assuming no false teeth issues etc) would be a better response. The one bright light in all this was that the local paper quoted a Chartered Safety Practitioner as saying it was all nonsense and as a result the story head line put the story in its place as a nonsense item and not as a news item. So perhaps the message about sensible safety is getting through in a few places. We are booked for our local panto this weekend and my granddaughter had better get a toffee or I shall complain about mean minded managers etc.Watch this space. R

Posted By Sheila EJ Keogh why were old ladies at the panto? If they're used to going to pantos, they would know that sweets etc are chucked out into the audience. Perhaps they should've done their own risk assessment and gone to bingo or somewhere instead (no disrespect intended to the older generation)