Eight people fell off cliffs in Wales over the Bank Holiday. That seems extraordinarily careless; it's not that hard to not fall off a cliff.
They're going to set up a cliffwatch station at Rhossili; a man fell and died there yesterday. The man talking about it on the television said, 'The lookout won't stop people falling off but we will be able to get help there sooner.'
In Mumbles, where I grew up, there is a sea wall about 15' high. For a large section of it, there was no barrier to prevent people falling off. Throughout my growing-up there were few, if any, fatalities. People jumped off it, yes, but that was to get into the sea. Now there is a railing along the length of it, including the bit that has stones sticking up from it and which was such a challenge to walk along when we were young. The nanny state in action.
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