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Thanks Jackie, that pic is lovely. :wub:
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David Williams ‏@williada60 · 14m

Me and the lovely Will Young on Carnaby Street

 

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Stunning :wub:

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Sir Ian McKellen, Clare Balding, Will Young, Duncan James and Christian Jessen are among guests at Pride in London's gala dinner tonight...

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Just seen Will has tweeted about the pride gala dinner too.

 

Will Young @will_young31

#gaypride

Will Young @will_young31

Off to pride in London gala dinner with @pacehealth . We are looking for friends and allies

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How lovely

 

 

@will_young31 you made my Sarah's actual life with that video message for her and Mark's day. She just couldn't believe it. Thanks so much x
It really was a lovely thing for him to do :heart:

Thanks Jacqui - I've just been reading that.

 

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The man make have simply thought 'oh get a room' why assume he was a conservative man? why assume it was because your gay?

2 Jul 11:09

Does this man really believe that a man and woman doing the same thing would be treated in the same way:

 

the duty manager came up to ask us to be careful of our proximity to each other. She stated that it might 'disturb' some of the more 'conservative' of spa visitors.

 

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Thanks Jackie.

 

Another very articulate article from Will. I never believed such a private man would have acted inappropriately.

Pics from the Stonewall Conference :wub:

 

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Loads of tweets saying how inspiring his talk was :heart:

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Thanks Jackie. Hadn't seen your post before I started a new thread. Never mind you can never have too many pics of Will even in duplicate. :D
Thanks Jackie. Hadn't seen your post before I started a new thread. Never mind you can never have too many pics of Will even in duplicate. :D

 

Better to have them twice than not at all Gill.

 

No idea about the pic...he looks very happy though.

 

The HSE agree with Will:

 

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Read the HSE Chair agree with @will_young31 on his views regarding pooch Esme and unhelpful wardens http://bit.ly/1jdEbtJ #bustedmyth

http://www.hse.gov.uk/news/judith-risk-ass...-park040714.htm

 

The mysterious case of the dog in the park...

 

You may have read pop singer Will Young’s Huffington Post blog link to external website recently in which he rightly railed against park wardens who refused to help him find his dog Esme due to ‘health and safety rules’. Three times the worried singer asked wardens for a lift in their vehicles to help search for his errant pooch and three times he was refused on "health and safety" grounds.

 

Mr Young rightly identified the real reason for this unhelpfulness as the wardens imagining he would sue them if he fell out of the vehicle! This kind of paranoia generally provides an excuse to simply be unhelpful. I for one applaud Will for writing about the incident but also having the nous to recognise health and safety had no part to play in the mean spirited episode. By the way, HSEs Myth Busters agreed also.

 

It’s been more than two years since HSE launched its Myth Busters Challenge Panel and in that time I’d like to think we have made real strides in challenging the public perception of health and safety being a barrier to people going about their everyday business.

 

As I’ve said before there are many reasons why health and safety is trotted out by any number of people, poor customer service or a lazy justification for an unpopular decision or fear of civil litigation and the need to do things to get insured. However, the one reason that really rankles is the one illustrated above, one of good old fashioned unhelpfulness.

 

One such recent MBCP case involved the iconic Tour De France where a county council in Yorkshire asked that bunting carrying 20,000 small knitted Tour de France jerseys was removed from lampposts as it ‘created a health and safety risk’ "due to structural integrity issues".

 

Now, I do know this is not health and safety and I can’t comment on the whys and wherefores of lamppost integrity, but I can suggest as the Myth Busters do that the Council could have been far more helpful and offered suggestions to allow people’s hard work being displayed rather than ordering it being pulled down.

 

The fact that some people opt for convenient but nonsense excuses to mask their unhelpfulness suggests awareness that they could do more if they were inclined, I’d appeal to those people to think not of what they don’t want to do but rather what they can do to help others, after all compassion is an important human trait, lets not forget it.

 

Thanks to Julie(Will-4-Me) on Baby D for spotting this. The whole point of the HSE is to safeguard people's lives not to be used as a big stick for Mr Jobsworth :rolleyes:

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