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safety fears, and it stayed shut
as ‘an anti-terrorist measure’.
Then in 1990 a committee
was formed to campaign for
the beach to reopen. There
was to be a two-month trial
and the idea was to truck in
more sand and open it for
twelve days a month, taking
up to 500 people at a time.
The committee’s medical
adviser, a professor from
Guy’s Hospital, told the press
that ‘the water quality of the