MR BROCKLEBANK is bemused by the rising estimates provided by the media over the numbers of people attending the Tall Ships' Races event in Liverpool last weekend. With the body count bidding starting at 50,000, at the time of print it had risen to 300,000.
Surely the simplest way to sort this out is to get everyone who attended to return and stand in an orderly queue so they can be counted properly? (Late news: a missive delivered in a cleft-stick by a postal runner estimates 450,000 - equivalent to Liverpool's population.)