Mad Laws Are Hurtful to Health and Safety ; Former Bbc Foreign Correspondent Alan Pearce Looks at the Mad Health and Safety Rules Today's Police Officers Have to Abide by, From Cycling Properly to Doing a Risk Assessment Before Saving a Person From Drowning....

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BRITAIN'S cycling bobbies must have sighed in relief this week when they learned they would not have to study a two-volume 86-page training manual showing them how to ride a push-bike.

In a rare show of common sense, the country's top policemen finally rang the bell on at least one barmy health and safety rule.

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Mad Laws Are Hurtful to Health and Safety ; Former Bbc Foreign Correspondent Alan Pearce Looks at the Mad Health and Safety Rules Today's Police Officers Have to Abide by, From Cycling Properly to Doing a Risk Assessment Before Saving a Person From Drowning....

One suspects the manual of the obvious would have become "mandatory" reading had not The Sun splashed it, earlier on the day, across their front page with the headline "The Bonkers Bike Book for Bobbies".

The weighty ma...

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