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Youths captured risking lives climbing scaffolding on church refurb project

Residents in the area of St Cuthbert’s Church Darwen, Lancs have witnessed youths climbing scaffolding despite a range of deterents in place.

Father Douglas Moore said:

“They must have been pretty determined to get up there because there’s boarding up at the bottom and the ladders are deliberately higher than most people can get to. I think they’d have to clamber up the pole to get to them. 

They are risking their lives. If anyone fell from that height there would be serious consequences. I shall be very relieved when it is all taken down.”