Mr Hull said it had been a “happy ending” for Mrs Dale, whose house was badly damaged by a fire last year, before she suffered a heart attack.
There’s a tendency in recent years for local news stories to pile on the misery like this, usually in a pathetic attempt at mitigation when someone’s complaining that they (rightly) got a parking ticket.
BBC “journalism” is eating itself. What a sorry state of affairs. If we’d got to this place by accident rather than design, I’d be less depressed about it. Run it down… dumb it down… click bait it up… destaff it… merge the channels… close it down…. shut it up… it’s government policy.
The BBC still does great journalism.
It’s just having to fill the void left by the slow death of other local news outlets (because of the domination of the ad market by Facebook & Google).
And misguided shit like this is part and parcel of local news, unfortunately.