The sad news that Max Sullivan-Webb (17) has died in flooding is of great sadness. Max Sullivan-Webb and some friends were playing around in an area of flooded water when Max Sullivan-Webb and a friend became trapped in a culvert (a sort of concrete tunnel). Luckily his friend was rescued and taken to hospital.

I think this sort of tragic news makes us realize just how short life can be and you never know when it’s going to be snatched away from you. It’s difficult to know if there could have been anything done to prevent this death. Max Sullivan-Webb died because he was trapped in the culvert which has metal bars to prvent a build-up of weeds. However this is what probably caused his death. Who knows if these culverts should be taken away or whether it’s simply “one of those things”.

Many people complain about Britain being a nanny state and how we’re always told not to do this and not to do that. But perhaps it’s incidents such as these that makes us realize why there are so many different regulations in place?

Francois Pienaar is to be played by Matt Damon in a new movie The Human Factor which will be directed by Clint Eastwood. Francois Pienaar was born in 1967 to a working class Afrikaner family and played rugby for