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Poppy seller told to undergo risk assessment « Thread Started on Nov 4, 2009, 7:11pm »
An army veteran was told to stop selling poppies at a Portsmouth shopping centre unless he agreed to undergo a 'risk assessment'.
Jean Reno, who fought in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq, was selling the poppies at Gunwharf Quays, in Portsmouth, when he was stopped by a security guard.
He was asked if he had permission to sell the plastic flowers, but when he refused to fill in a permission slip, which included a risk assessment, the guard asked him to leave the premises.
Mr Reno, from Southsea, Hants, said, "I didn't require a risk assessment when I was sent to Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Afghanistan, or Iraq. But I require one to stand on Gunwharf Quays property to sell poppies."
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Re: Poppy seller told to undergo risk assessment « Reply #1 on Nov 5, 2009, 3:13pm »
Isn't it time we got real and returned to what happened in the past? Poppy sellers could sell poppies any where to anyone, you put in the box what you could afford even an old penny would be OK especially if it was all a child had! As for the leaf? the old ones never had a leaf just a piece of wire and a paper poppy head.
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