""Your last sentence, Don, is purest invention. Why am I not surprised?""

Not invention, but a reasonable conclusion, based on the FACT that the safety issue has miraculously disappeared while there is overtime to be had.

It will no doubt miraculously reappear as soon as Unite enters negotiation with the management.

Let me say this. I am as pissed off as anybody by this business of farming out chunks of work to contractors who rip off workers and as far as that is concerned I am entirely on the side of those men.

No need, though, to wrap it up in a spurious cloak of sympathy grabbing nonsense.

If safety were the issue, invoking driving regulations would suffice to sort it, but they haven't apparently done that.

Don T.