Woman's body found at Sawley Marina

[alan_fincher]

BBC News Link

 

(not sure if already posted?).

[mrsmelly]

BBC News Link

 

(not sure if already posted?).

 

Yup usual news error. Twas Derby boat club.

 

Tim

[GoodGurl]

now identified.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-32224662

[alan_fincher]

 

Yup usual news error. Twas Derby boat club.

 

Tim

 

Not just the BBC News then - somebody needs to tell Leicestershire Police they don't know where it was, if you are right!

 

Leicestershire Police Linky.

[Guest]

Not just the BBC News then - somebody needs to tell Leicestershire Police they don't know where it was, if you are right!

 

Leicestershire Police Linky.

That says NEAR Sawley marina. Derby boat club moorings are just outside Sawley Marina on Sawley Cut.

[GoodGurl]

Sawley Marina and DMBC are next door to each other so could have been either i suppose.

[mrsmelly]

Twass Derby boat club......its about 4 inches away from Sawley marina and local press etc often use the same name as the Marina is a well known landmark as it is rather ooge.

 

Tim

[alan_fincher]

Twass Derby boat club......its about 4 inches away from Sawley marina and local press etc often use the same name as the Marina is a well known landmark as it is rather ooge.

 

Tim

Sorry, didn't realise you were complaining about only 4 inches.

 

(Oooh, Matron!).

[mrsmelly]

Sorry, didn't realise you were complaining about only 4 inches.

 

(Oooh, Matron!).

 

That reminds me..............there was a day of carry on films on recently, they are still funny to saddos like me

 

Tim

[Thewatchmaker]

Yes let's argue about location, never mind some poor sod has died ...........

[NB Lola]

Yeah, we saw the area taped off, behind the club moorings, with scenes of crime etc working on Monday, so sad anyone has to die unnaturally.

[Guest]

Yes let's argue about location, never mind some poor sod has died ...........

 

I don't think anybody is actually 'arguing' about the location rather just pointing out that the newspaper article has made an error in it's reporting........ something that seems to happen a lot in news articles about canals and rivers.

[junior]

 

I don't think anybody is actually 'arguing' about the location rather just pointing out that the newspaper article has made an error in it's reporting........ something that seems to happen a lot in news articles about canals and rivers.

It probably happens in a lot of news articles about everything, except we only notice it in the ones about the canals which we know something about.

[Guest]

It probably happens in a lot of news articles about everything, except we only notice it in the ones about the canals which we know something about.

 

Quite true. I remember once ringing the Sun about a their reporting of a suspicious death which they reported as happening in our village which in fact happened in Whitby some 22 miles away.

 

I actually managed to get to speak to the offending journalist who couldn't have been less interested in my pointing out of his sloppy and lazy journalism nor in the fact that the inaccurate reporting could hinder what was a ongoing police investigation at the time. Once it was printed that clearly was the end of it.

[mrsmelly]

Speaking from experience on several newspaper articles one of which I was directly involved in that was a major news story I can assure you that news be it on tv or the printed comics is at least 50 percent inaccurate to a greater or lesser degree. It is all about being first with " The News " and very much secondary about content.

We never buy a co called newspaper.

 

Tim

[MoominPapa]

Anyone who has ever read anything in the media about a subject in which they're expert will know that such articles are always full of misconceptions, over-simplifications, and often just plain wrong. Now extrapolate to all the other articles you read on subjects where you're not an expert? Think they're magically well-informed and authoritative, and the press only gets your specialist subject wrong?

 

 

MP.

[Henhouse]

BBC couldn't even get my name right, even though it was in print for them in the item they were copying from the Manchester Evening News

[jddevel]

Many many years ago I was working late(again) and listening to both reports anecdotes that had been broadcast live on the good old BBC (from days gone by when they "dressed" even though on the radio) and also newspaper published articles. Two stick in my mind although not in detail. One a newspaper reporter who was detailed to watch the launch of a new large vessel but was to lazy to actually personally watch. He wrote a report stating that the vessel "slid slowly and gracefully into the water" what he failed to report and more news worthy was that it promptly sank!!! The other BBC odd news cast was of a particularly auspicious occasion when I believe it was Royal Navy vessels were performing a night time illumination salute and the reporter having taken extensively of the "falling down water" and midway through his live report promptly did that. He cried out that all the lights had gone out and that the vessels had just disappeared from sight.

[Sea Dog]

Anyone who has ever read anything in the media about a subject in which they're expert will know that such articles are always full of misconceptions, over-simplifications, and often just plain wrong. Now extrapolate to all the other articles you read on subjects where you're not an expert? Think they're magically well-informed and authoritative, and the press only gets your specialist subject wrong?

 

 

MP.

 

Nicely put. My own experience and sentiments exactly.