However, checking out the paper’s news section resulted in the discovery of another of those hidden newspaper exclusives that seem so prevalent these days.<\/p>\r\n
This hidden exclusive came in a piece<\/a> about the successful start made by the constabulary’s new commercial vehicle team, which, since its inception in November 2020, has stopped 969 vehicles, dealt with 1,436 offences and issued \u00a3181,950 in fines.<\/p>\r\n The hidden exclusive can be found in the paragraph below, which details the team’s work.<\/p>\r\n Yes, you did read that right: within the context of that sentence, commercial vehicles carrying agricultural vehicles is now an offence.<\/p>\r\n Normally at this juncture in a post such as this, your correspondent would be castigating the journalist responsible for this gaffe. However, the sole thing for which I can criticise her is churnalism<\/em><\/a>, i.e journalism based on press releases, rather than the journalist’s own investigation and research.<\/p>\r\n In this particular instance the sentence in question has been copied from the original police press release<\/a> without scrutiny of its content and pasted directly into the Star’s piece.<\/p>\r\n![\"Suffolk](\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/07\/suffolk_plod-600x338.jpg\")
A total of 189 vehicles were prohibited from the roads, 80 were immobilised and 222 given warnings, for offences including being overweight, mechanical reasons\/condition, insecure loads, tachograph infringements, carrying dangerous goods, abnormal loads and agricultural vehicles.<\/blockquote>\r\n