Exactly the point. They were both wrong. Not the whole of the people of Cornwall or Devon or the West Country, (in fact they came from all over) and not the whole of the traveller population of Appleby during Horse Fair Week. But our correspondent(s) saw them in contradictory terms. I think it is fair to point this out.

Just to help a little, the first post comes from January 25th 2007 and the second one comes from above.