A former member of the RAF who broke his neck during an "It's a Knockout" type event at an air force base has had his bid for £6m damages turned down.

Robert Uren was 21 when he dived into an inflatable pool to retrieve plastic fruit at an event at RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, in July 2005.

He had sued the MoD and Corporate Leisure to cover the care he will need after he was left tetraplegic.

The judge Mr Justice Field said: "Such activities are almost never risk-free."

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Ian Lewis  Coordinator  Campaign for Adventure

SANE research into self harm - the evidence exists that, if society is dumbed down sufficiently, stimulating behaviours will emerge. Such is the now-emerging evidence of the over-crowded laboratory rat experiments of the '60s.

The question being asked is how many other correlations and even direct links to increasing social behaviours of self-harm, aggression, selfishness, mental illness and solitary self preservation can be attributed to pressures within modern society? Sane make clear that this is not a call for help nor an intention to commit suicide. See: http://www.sane.org.uk/News/View/218

Ian Lewis  Coordinator  Campaign for Adventure