The current planning system
offers scant protection for pubs, with it being perfectly legal to demolition a pub, unless the building is listed or is in a conservation area - even when this goes against the wishes of the landlord and the local community.
The rag - tag team left the harbor aboard a modest motorized lifeboat seating only a dozen and offering
scant protection against the elements.
A $ 10,000 policy is
scant protection against the many thousands of unrecoverable funds that could be lost in one fraudulent wire transfer.