Just how wrong the press can get the details

Jan 20, 2014 8 Replies

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.

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

Bill

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

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.

How about 15,000 tonnes?

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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

Looking at the image here:

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

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.

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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

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