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Quote: Originally posted by John-tracy on 20/7/2016

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Hope you have a lovely time bellringer18 , Tracy is the nervous type to start off with so I said we would leave it this year and could see the relief in her face lol ... She just wouldn't enjoy it at moment so will just have to make the most of it over here , we did newquay , St Ives , lands end and Torquay last year so we going to go along the Dorset coast this year just have to try find some decent sites now

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Quote: Originally posted by missmally on 21/7/2016

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France is huge, I just think wherever you are, even Dorset, you have as much chance as getting caught up in something as anywhere else, which amounts to basically very little chance. I'm not a worrier and tend to be a free spirit but I do admit I would try to avoid public gatherings, not just in France though. The nutters MO at the moment seems to be attacking public places with large numbers of people. Some food for thought.....

In France, in the last two years, there have been eight attacks, killing a total of 247 people. There are 66 million people in France. At the current level of activity, their odds of being killed in a terrorist attack in a given year are less than two ten-thousandths of one per cent. That’s 27 times lower than their odds of dying in a car accident.

   It is estimated that the empirical annual probability of a UK resident dying from a preventable cause (e.g. smoking, drinking, obesity, adverse hospital events, violence etc)   is 1 in 417, this being 38,000 times higher than the empirical annual probability of a UK resident being killed by a terrorist of about 1 in 16 million.

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