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  It's official - don't clear the path outside your home or business.
  
  In the (online) Telegraph this morning, Health and safety experts warn: don't clear icy pavements, you could get sued.
  Pavements are being left covered in ice because of "ludicrous" laws that put home owners and businesses at risk of being sued if they try to clear them.
  
  
  Heavy snow, low temperatures and a lack of gritting mean pavements throughout the country are too slippery to walk on safely. Hospitals have been struggling to cope with rising numbers of patients who have broken bones after falling on icy paths.
  
  Yet the professional body that represents health and safety experts has issued a warning to businesses not to grit public paths - despite the fact that Britain is in the grip of its coldest winter for nearly half a century.
  
  
  Under current legislation, householders and companies open themselves up to legal action if they try to clear a public pavement outside their property. If they leave the path in a treacherous condition, they cannot be sued.
  
  Mad or what ?
  
  
  
  
  Roger

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