UK: Gas safety questions raised

Source: The Herald

Publication date: Feb 04, 2000

SO MPs are demanding action over the fall in gas safety.

I live beside the A89 and walk 100 yards of its verge most mornings. During the days of British Gas the pipe thereunder was repaired a number of times over the years. During the past couple of years I have phoned Transco three or four times to report a smell of gas along the said verge. I have also phoned the Health and Safety Executive. Nothing has happened.

Earlier this week when this verge was part flooded there was not only a smell of gas, the puddles over the pipe resembled a bubble- bath! Safety standards? Not if you live in the country.

J C Ballard, 8 Houston Mains, Uphall. February 3.

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