Department for Culture, Media and Sport tweeted 'safe' Poohsticks rules It said to make sure that children don't lean over the sides of the bridge Tweets also advised parents to check that bridges are structurally sound' Taxpayers' Alliance branded the department 'nanny state spoilsports' Government officials have been branded 'nanny state spoilsports' after tweeting out a set of rules for a safe game of Poohsticks - only to delete it minutes later. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport posted the advice this afternoon but quickly removed it. A follow-up tweet claimed it had been posted in error. It read: ' When playing Poohsticks check bridge sidebarriers are safe height with no large gaps and structurally sound bridges with slow-flowing water.' Over-the-top: Government officials have been branded 'nanny state spoilsports' after tweeting out a set of rules for a safe game of Poohsticks - only to delete it minutes later A subsequent tweet added: ' When playing Poohsticks, do not allow children to lean out over sides of the bridge. Children should be supervised at all times by an adult.' Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said the tweets were evidence of the overbearing insistence on over-the-top health and safety measures by the government. He said: ' This is a perfect storm of civil servants with too much time on their hands and the ever tighter grip of nanny state health and safety legislation. Let's hope they didn't hold a meeting to discuss it.' When approached by Mail Online, a spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport refused to explain the tweets, other than to say 'they had been sent in error'. The department later tweeted: ' Silly mistake on our part on the Pooh Sticks tweet - we didn't mean for it to be posted. Apologies all.' It comes just days after an engineer claimed to have come up with a surefire way of winning at the.
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Last updated 23:26, November 25 2015 REUTERS Russia's president Vladimir Putin says the downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border is a stab in the back carried out by the accomplices of terrorists. Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that the second pilot picked up by Syrian Army' is now safe and sound at Russia's military base in Syria Putin was speaking in a televised comments on Wednesday after Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke to Russian news agencies that the man was rescued in a 12-hour operation, which ended in the early hours on Wednesday. The Syrian state media reported on Wednesday that the Russian and Syrian special forces rescued the pilot near its border the day before. ANADOLU AGENCY/ GETTY IMAGES Moments before the plane crashed. Earlier Russia's ambassador to France Alexander Orlov said on Europe-1 radio that the pilot is in the hands of the Syrian army and was being taken to a Russian airforce base. Ambassador Alexander Orlov said that the other pilot was wounded, then killed on the ground by jihadists. READ MORE: Turkey shoots down Russian jet on Syrian border Orlov denied Turkish government statements that the Russian plane had been warned repeatedly about an airspace violation before shooting it down plane and he accused Turkey of being an accomplice of Islamic State extremists and playing an ambiguous role in Syria's civil war. However, he played down concerns of escalation of violence among the international players involved in Syria. Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan also did not want any escalation, saying Turkey had acted simply to defend its own security and the rights of our brothers in Syria. REUTERS U. S. President Obama and French President Francois Hollande agree it is important for Turkey and Russia to avoid further escalation, after Turkey shot down a Russian plane Speaking at business event in Istanbul, Erdogan.
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