Reply #12: Dastardly Guardian/Financial Times hoax played on Sun with fireworks

[muriel_volestrangler]

The Guardian News & Media director of digital content, Emily Bell, would like to make it clear that her family had no part in damaging any of those 65ft multimillion-pound turbine blades - but she can help explain those "massive balls of light with tentacles going right down to the ground", as one onlooker described them to the Sun.

Those mysterious lights were actually the fireworks Emily's brother Tim had bought at the local garden centre for the 80th birthday party of dad Peter Bell. "It was a medium-sized fireworks display with absolutely no ballistics, and the fireworks were mostly dropping over my parents' house. But we were laughing that we could have broken the wind turbine," jested Emily.

"There we are in the middle of a scoop and we're beaten to it by a red-top tabloid," said Emily's mother Bridget, 74. Emily's husband Ed Crooks was also beaten to the story – and he's the energy editor of the Financial Times.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/jan/08/windpower-thesun