Just how wrong the press can get the details

[Harry Bloomfield]

Looking at the tyre fire at Sherburn in Elmet, the reports vary from

15,000 tyres, to 1,000 tons, to 1,000 tyres. There was even a report I read of 100,000 tyres.

[Bill Wright]

Doesn't it cost 50p to dispose of a tyre?

Bill

[Roger Mills]

?Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative" ... W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado

[Martin Bonner]

I think it's more like a couple of quid. But that's the cost to add to a pile like the one in Sherburn in Elmet.

[Mike Barnes]

How about 15,000 tonnes?

[Nightjar]

Anyone who has been quoted in the press has no need to be told how far from the truth the news reports can be.

Colin Bignell

[Richard]

Looking at the image here:

I'd say that the 15k tonnes is about right.

[Ian Jackson]

Maybe we should be asking "How much does it cost to dispose of a carpet"? The carpets being stored for recycling at Thrunton Brickworks, in Northumberland, have been burning since 3 September.

[Brian Gaff]

Perhaps the report er was tyresd? OK the spelling is wrong but I never let that get in the way of a bad pun.

Brian