PLATFORM SMOKING

A woman was this week thrown on to a railway track. Apparently she accosted two men who were smoking on a station platform in spite of notices saying smoking was forbidden. They threw her on the track and she was fortunate that other passengers got her back with only minor cuts and bruises before the next train arrived. Also she missed the live rail (electrified track). Well the men's response seems more than a little extreme but perhaps the experience will teach her not be such a busybody. As far as one can tell from TV images of the station the platform was wide open to the elements so smoking could not really be a problem any more than it would be in Raigmore Hospital car park where smoking is also forbidden.