... ‘ A miracle no-one was killed’ Builder fined over scaffolding By Tracie Bunce A CHORLEY builder has been fined £1,250 after his wife narrowly escaped serious injury when seaffolding collapsed. Darren Clitheroe's company DMC Builders was repairing brickwork ...

... that it was a miracle nobody had been killed. The “final straw” was Mr Purcell using a ladder stretched from the top of the scaffold to the roof to remove more than 100 slates. It was this that caused the scaffolding to collapse. Dr Lightfoot said Clitheroe ...

... —On Thursday afternoon, Robert Rimmer, farm labourer, was killed by passing train at Blowick, near Southport. was attempting to pass behind luggage train, and whs caught a passing express and killed on the spot. ...

... and ask contractors to leave their sites safe and secure where possible.” Children have been injured and killed by debris falling from scaffolding and through playing on sites.” ~ Contractors are being advised how to secure tt;illeir sites and discourage ...

... to have occurred at Khartoum on the 26th July. The Treasury is said to have been attacked and plundered and the treasurer killed. Ifaboinets Kheir and Abdullab Kalifa el Tasishi the Mandi's successor, with their vraksels, were speared, it is said, while ...

... railway cutting near Bath, Thursday, •hea Urge portion of the embankaMnt fell, kill'h* tl,€ ~,ea, both legs tha Accident at Baeuow.—Four men Saturday engaged on scaffolding used in «« erection of railway bridge Omagill, Barro it suddenly gave way, the ...

... their spiritital advisers. Martin stated to the Rev. Canon Waterton that he fired the shot which killed Byrnes, but he added that he din! not intend to kill him only to disable hint. Budge and Mani!, declared that the fourth man, who has not been arrested ...

... the reply of M. Roch. This, in the horrible slang of toe scaffold, means to which side the head should drop. Vachot refused the pinions and strait-jacket, promising oliedience. On the scaffold nervona smile quivered through his features. One of the mates ...

... parishioners -especially the younger portionby the existence of the Inoe Recreation Grounds, where a young man was last week killed through wrestlingwhen drunk. Gambling and betting said the vicar bad become tearfully prevalent amongst the working clssses ...

... prison otficials came oot of pinioning room in a short and solrmn procession. Fish was very weak, and mounted the steps of the scaffold with dilfftalty, ootwithstanding ibo assis'ance of the warders. Thompson, a roan of 11 stone, nod of greater physique and ...

... of the ballets which pierced the skull would base caused death, but independently of of this evideuce to the mode of the killing, the burgeons are satisfied that the throat was also out while the body was warm, and they presume that this was done to drain ...

... told the miners that the roof above where Greener was killed would fall, and they must come out of it. The man who was killed was good workman. The defendant was also a good worker. Greener was killed a fortnight ago. The defendant had only worked in the ...