THIS cheeky motorist, pictured above, was spotted during the recent hosepipe ban using equipment at Leighton’s Vandyke Road Cemetery to give his blue car a clean.
Families visiting the cemetery were shocked and disgusted to see the man using a hosepipe reserved for watering graveside flowers flouting the ban and washing his car.
One bystander was so shocked that he took a photo on his mobile phone. He said: “We couldn’t believe it. It was disgraceful. He should be named and shamed. The hosepipe was there for families to use not for someone to use the area as a car wash.”
Water company Anglian Water relaxed their hosepipe ban, enforced since the beginning of April, ban on Thursday.
And there was certainly no shortage of water in the River Ouzel in Leighton Buzzard last week for the areas from Leighton Road to Firs Path where a Flood Warning was in place.
LBO reader Stuart Oliver sent us this photograph, taken from his home in the Plantation Road area, showing the flooded River Ouzel on Tuesday evening .
He said: “The actual river is located around 25 feet beyond the fence seen in the picture. The far river bank is very popular with walkers... but they won’t be talking their dogs for a while!”
“The river overflows into gardens occasionally during heavy rain in the winter months. But we have never seen it rise so high in June... nor in the midst of a hosepipe ban!”
“The overflowing river does not cause a problem as it only covers grassland. For it to be a problem, it would have to rise at least a further five or six feet, by which time, a significantly large part of the UK will be under water.”
A Flood Alert was also in place last week along other parts of the River Ouzel across Beds and Bucks, plus Clipstone Brook in Leighton.