And finally…health and safety gone drag
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A group of construction workers suffering through the recent heatwave in the south of England have worked a flanker on health and safety officials who had banned them from wearing shorts on the sweltering site – by wearing dresses and skirts instead.
According to reports in the Daily Mail, the men, who were working in Chertsey, Surrey, were horrified by new health and safety rules forbidding shorts.
However, the crafty brickies realised that gender equality regulation meant they could get around the ban by wearing women’s clothing and showed up to graft in skirts and dresses instead.
Simon Miles, 45, wore his wife’s denim skirt while working on the Bellway Homes site,.
He said: “Shorts were made for brickies.
“I was going to find another job and some of the other lads were really struggling and uncomfortable in jeans. We gathered it was a health and safety issue.
“But we realised that as there were women working in offices on the same site in skirts, they couldn’t stop us doing the same.”
The workers said they were also inspired by schoolboys wearing skirts to get around a ban on shorts.
Adam Houdoire, 29, opted for a £10 dress from a supermarket.
He said: “I love it. It gives you far more freedom.”
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