Bath brings ceiling down

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 5

Bath brings ceiling down

(iV.Z. Press Assn-—Copyright,) LONDON. A British housewife’s controversial plan for couples to “share a bath’’ and save power during the miners’ dispute brought the ceiling down at an English hotel last week. A couple decided to share a bath, and customers packed in a bar below the bathroom scattered when the ceiling collapsed and showered them i with water. ■ I The couple had filled the

bath to tiie brim and when they jumped in the water overflowed, sending the ceiling crashing. The landlord of the hotel in Taunton, Somerset, Mr Alan Davey, rushed upstairs to see what the problem was. “I pushed open the bathroom door, and found the couple in the all-together looking rather sheepish,” he said. M.P.’s ENDORSEMENT A Labour member of the House of Commons, Mrs Renee Short, has joined the two-in-a-bathtub campaign, admitting she takes two-hour

baths with her husband on Sundays. Mrs Short, aged 54, said she has a bath with her husband, Andrew, every Sunday morning when she could. “I can recommend it,” she said. “I think it gives a new dimension to marriage. It is a lovely Sunday morning activity when you don’t have to rush out to work. “It is the best possible way ’of spending a nice, warm couple of hours on a Sunday morning. It is the highlight of the week for us,” said Mrs Short.