FIREMEN have slid down poles for 200 years. Now thanks to European safety directives, they are being ordered to walk downstairs instead. How silly.
The growth of the compensation culture has played a part in the pole-axing.
I discovered in our area it doesn't apply anyway - the modern stations are single storey!
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