WITH reference to your front-page story ‘Canal lock divers in Blackburn warned: You could kill yourselves’ (LT, July 19) – ignoring sound, well considered advice leads to legislation from the nanny state because even if you don’t have regard for your own life, it’s the risk that you pose to those whose job it is to recover your bodies.

Am sure that someone did an underwater search to make sure that there were no hidden dangers under the water, and that it was deep enough to dive into from that height.

It begs the question, do your parents know how daft you are?

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