I have to congratulate Weymouth’s council on the quality of its photoshopped laser pictures. Picky I know, but the angle of the beams doesn’t tie in with the text, ‘projected...a few hundred metres into the sea’.

Presumably this was to avoid people worrying that if they’re on the beach at dusk and want to swim/paddle/peddalo they may have to risk eye damage. I’ve probably got it all wrong. The pictures are correct in showing the beams, showing up nice and clearly on a foggy winter’s evening. Of course, in the summer season they won’t look like that until 10 o’clock at night, and then only if there is a suitable level of mist or rain.

Tough luck kids – still we are trying to get away from the family holiday image, aren’t we?

It is nice to see that the council has agreed to switch them off if the helicopter needs to rescue anyone. Will this be done remotely by the MCA or have the council costings factored in the expense of having an engineer available whenever they are fired up? Perhaps we could have a system where people falling overboard could give an hour’s notice to the council?

Could the committee running this new asset just thumb through the risk assessment that should have been completed before the council spent our half a mill. Maybe that helicopter thingy was missed.

Don’t get me wrong, I, along with thousands of council tax payers, cannot wait for our ‘ongoing poem written by the weather’.

I look forward to December, sorry, February, well, whenever.

Ian Hall

Reforne

Portland