• IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    The boy’s 47-year-old mother, her other son, 12, and daughter, eight, were located at around 20:30 by a rescue helicopter clinging to a paddleboard about 14km offshore.

    FFS BBC, did nobody proof read this?

      • IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 day ago

        Something like:

        ‘The boy’s 47-year-old mother, her other son, 12, and daughter, eight, were located at around 20:30 by a rescue helicopter. They were found clinging to a paddleboard about 14km offshore.’

        The way they’ve put it, it sounds like the rescue helicopter was clinging to a paddleboard when it found them!

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          1 day ago

          good edit, also if you use numerals for numbers (12) dont change to word numbers (eight) inmediately after! also; i want to see the footage of the rescue copter clinging to the paddle board :(