Conkers warning 'bonkers'
A Conservative Minister suggested that a council which pinned a notice to a horse chestnut tree telling passers-by to beware of falling conkers had "gone bonkers".
Local Government Minister Bob Neill suggested council officials in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, were being “excessive health and safety zealots”.
Council bosses said the notice – which reads “BEWARE Falling Conkers” and advises walkers to “proceed with care” – was put on a tree in a popular public garden after a passer-by was hit on the head.