ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 16-1-2006

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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This week's pictures are about warning signs. They're all over the place nowadays - everywhere you walk or drive and on everything you buy or use. Telling you of threats and dangers that are all too often either blindingly obvious or so obscure and unlikely you'd never be at real risk from them in a thousand years. Scaffolding, hardly a hidden hazard, is frequently made more difficult to walk around simply because of all the warning signs now attached to it. Councils and businesses put up a lot of these signs simply to protect themselves from being sued for damages or personal injury claims. It is a great shame that in one of the safest countries on earth we live increasingly in a state of fear and trepidation. Tripping over a broken pavement will not be the most pressing concern of, for example, the residents of Baghdad. But in Britain today, a walk down the street seems to have become a journey fraught with danger. You have been warned.

Strong currents in Greenwich in May 1987 (image 437-16)

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