I CAN'T believe Blackburn Council has banned backstroke from its baths. Is this another fear of compo claims?
For years kids have been battered on the head by the flailing arms of backcrawlers.
It happened regularly when I was a youngster at our much-missed Silk Street baths and no-one ever batted an eyelid.
Will front-crawlers have to stop paddling their feet and breast strokers splaying out their legs in case they kick someone floating by?
Rules are getting sillier and sillier.
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