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Pensioner ordered to wear fluorescent jacket while gardening 
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Monday, August 13 2007 11:49:16 by Editor
A Wiltshire pensioner has been told by her local council that she must comply with health and safety regulations if she is to continue to tend a public flower bed near her home.
Jane Turnball, who has been working on the plot near Devizes for six years, is to be required to don a fluorescent jacket, use another person as a 'lookout' at all times, and to put up signs notifying passers-by of the work currently being undertaken.
Mrs Turnbull told the BBC: "I was very angry, I mean it seems so petty bothering with what I do here. There's just no point."
Describing the restrictions as "health and safety gone mad", she said that her work on the plot was important to her: "I love doing it. I want to make it as pretty as I possibly can. I will continue working on the flower bed."
Peter Hanson at Wiltshire County Council said that they "require that people undertaking this type of work follow the same safety procedures as our own staff to ensure they are not put at risk".
The case was originally brought to the council's attention after an official spotted her at work on the flower bed while passing by.
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