AVEBURY: The parish council has decided in the light of revelations of unsafe play equipment in Marlborough that the regular safety checks carried out on its playground equipment by local engineer Wynne Rawlins should be logged.

The parish council was told that Mr Rawlins, whose wife Gretchen is parish clerk, kept his own records of his safety checks but he is to be asked to keep a separate log of his inspections in a book for the council.