Up at 6.30 a.m yesterday morning and switched on the t.v to watch the early morning news. The main story on both Sky's Sunrise and BBC News 24's Breakfast was the police raid on a house in Forest Gate E7 in connection with a suspected terrorist device. Well first off it strikes me that it's either a terrorist device or it isn't - no suspected about it but more importantly, to the accountant in me, were the number of police officers quoted as being involved. Sky reported 150 officers were involved in the search whilst the BBC had 250 officers entering the house and Reuters had more than 250 officers involved!
When I was much younger my parents had friends who lived in Forest Gate and believe me getting 250 people in one of those houses would have involved the sort of effort usually reserved for one of the rounds of Jeux Sans Frontiers where a group of students from Rhyl wearing dodgy perms and denim had to get into a Mini Cooper to the accompaniment of manic laughter by Stuart Hall.
They should have asked Brian 'I counted them all out and I counted them all back' Hanrahan to stand by the front gate and do a head count as the police entered the premises, he wouldn't have allowed a 100 officer variance!
By the way, that isn't Brian Hanrahan in the picture, it's Carol Vorderman who is also well known for her mathematical abilities and is better looking than Brian.
Baldy Note: For anybody under the age of 30 Brian Hanrahan was BBC's reporter in the Falklands War and used the expression 'I counted them all out..." etc to get round the Thatcher governments reporting restrictions on the number of aircraft involved in certain engagements over the South Atlantic in the summer of 1982.
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