Dorset CC denies responsibility for fatal tunnel collapse

Dom Browne

26 February 2014

A decision by Dorset CC to remove trees from land above a tunnel meant a landslide that resulted in the death of a couple was an accident ‘waiting to happen’, a coroner’s inquest has heard.

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