What an ill-tempered series of postings!

Today on the TV it was saying that Morecambe Bay is empty of cocklers, because it is being treated as a giant crime scene; they showed mounted policewomen patrolling and neighbours putting bunches of flowers on the sands.

They also said that the crowded houses where the Chinese workers were living in shocking conditions have been deserted in haste; and TV footage showed rooms in an indescribable state.