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Pensioners banned from owning plants

Pensioners have been banned from having ornaments or plants on their verandas due to health and safety rules.

Council leaders wrote to pensioners at a sheltered housing complex telling them to remove items such as carpets, chairs, plants and ornaments from the areas because they could be a fire hazard.

Some opponents of the rules have urged residents of Rookery Court in West Thurrock, Essex, to defy them.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .