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Keep up to dateThis London window cleaner spotted working several storeys up without any safety equipment is obviously no vertigo sufferer
A Burgess, who took this snap, was less sanguine about such foolhardy working practices: “Cleaning windows earlier this week on fourth-floor building in Mayfair with no harness, PPE – nothing!” he remarked in horror.
Don't have a ladder suitable for working on stairs? Just get your pal to act as an extension!
'This is nothing – when we work at height we then need to strap on a another ladder,' this contractor told our alarmed correspondent
Poised on a bucket on a single scaffolding plank above thin air – this clown has missed his vocation. Let's hope he lives long enough to fulfil his circus ambitions in a more appropriate context
RBKC says firms involved in cladding the tower with dangerous materials should pay a share of its losses
Salford contractor Domis to build Salboy and Simpson Haugh’s 76-storey Viadux 2 tower
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