The Weymouth Bluetits will be out in force again this weekend, demanding the reinstatement of two pontoons 300 yards out to sea, which have been scrapped by the council on elf’n’safety grounds.
Last year, the Bluetits – a local swimming club – took to the water to protest about the removal of the rafts.
They had been there since 1939, giving swimmers off the coast of the Dorset resort somewhere to rest, without a single pontoon-related accident or injury.
But the Lib Dem council is standing firm, despite a petition signed by 3,000 people, and is refusing to reinstall the two rafts, after
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