Apology

sundaymailukAN ARTICLE in the Sunday Mail, on April 27, 2007, headlined “Co-op uses human ashes to grit path”, said staff at a Dunfermline funeral home had used ashes to grit a disabled ramp.
Despite printing the article in good faith , we now acknowledge and fully accept that this was not the case.
We apologise to the Co-operative Funeral Care and Bob Aitchison, the manager in Dunfermline, and unreservedly withdraw the allegations. Link

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on November 2, 2009 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
  • devika_melora
    I can't help but wonder exactly how much fact-checking was done here. I would think that any sensible person, especially a reporter, who hears such an outlandish claim would do a LOT of research to verify the story. And then it took them 2.5 years to publish an apology? I wonder if the funeral home finally contacted them after they discovered why people stopped using their services.
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