Friday 15 July 2011

BBC English


An article on the BBC website states:
It comes after Neil Wallis, ex-News of the World executive editor, was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications on Thursday morning.
Presumably the BBC meant to say that Mr Wallis was arrested on Thursday morning, not that he conspired to intercept communications that day.

A simple comma after the word ‘communications’ would have obviated the need for this blogpost.