Rail tragedy

There was a tremendous effort by our late crew yesterday to bring you the most up to date report for this morning's Daily Post on the railway tragedy near Wrexham last night.
They worked flat out to put together a front page and inside page on the story complete with eyewitness accounts and pictures.
Obviously a host of questions remain as to how and why the accident happened but one's sympathies obviously go to the family of the young girl who died and to the train driver who has endured a terrible experience.
While racing the deadline to bring you this story the newsdesk also had to take on the job of responding to a news update released by the police at 9.20pm on the result of a misconduct hearing into two North Wales officers....I wonder if the tribunal chairman was having a long day for this news to be made public at this hour?
Some of my favourite things in news stories are those quotes from spokespersons trying to defend the indefensible or to offer up farcical explanations for things going wrong.
Here's a cracker from Anglia Television who have today had to apologise for a technical error when viewers got to see three minutes of newsreader Emma Baker chatting away with her colleagues and fiddling with her hair, with no idea she was on the air
Anglia spokesman Jim Woodrow said a viewer's claim that Emma called a colleague "shameless" could be explained as a reference to an editor... called Seamus.
What a berk.