In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Janice Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Then on the tv they showed >somewhere in Norfolk. The newspaper report had a tag saying Manchester so I >had >assumed it was in the north. How much area of the country was affected? >Janice
>From what my daughter picked up from Radio 1 this morning, the epicentre was supposed to have been near Market Rasen, which is Lincolnshire rather than Norfolk. We felt it here in Tamworth - I was half asleep on the settee at the time, so for the first time when one has hit, downstairs, and it actually felt as if the ground under the house moved one way then the other. Spitzy (the cat we inherited from my parents) and I looked at each other, she with a "what on earth was that" look on her face, it took a while for her then to go back to sleep, I don't think she trusted things for a while! It was apparently felt as far away as Wales. The only person reported to have been injured, according to the news, was in Barnsley in Yorkshire, where a chimney fell in and the poor lad/bloke ended up with a broken pelvis from masonry landing on him (his father, on the Radio 4 news, said he needed to have an operation this morning for it - probably done by now.) Given that TV reporters sometimes assume that no-one has an idea of UK geography (including here!) I suppose if they say "Norfolk" and "Manchester" then they assume those are places that people may have heard of and will "know" where they are talking about! Apart from that, though, they may have picked up a report from the BBC's regional TV centre in Manchester - I think there is only radio in Leeds, so it would likely be the nearest. Market Rasen is on the Norfolk side of Lincolnshire, if you draw a line on a map between Grimsby (on the coast) and Lincoln it is about half way. -- Jane Partridge (who used, many years ago, to work for the BBC!) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
