Watford Sponsorship Saga: And Other Tardy Rubbish

On Sunday Dizzy caught up with the BBC and
The Mirror with a hilarious story of things sounding funny in one language that don't in their mother country.

Alas though Jon Henley had already had and
embellished the story. Or if we're being honest corrected the thing. Days earlier.

This three or four day kicking for the red top may go some very small way to meet the time defecit for his and finally story the same day. Which was, frankly, a load of old rubbish.

In a hot poop scoop Jon revealled that Keep Britain Tidy had changed its name to ENCAMS. Not quite true as "Keep Britain Tidy" is still the name of one of their campaigns. But old hat. As revealled three weeks earlier in Jeremy Paxman's paean to clean streets in the same paper, more than a year before in Wolverhampton (17 March 06), in autumn 2004 in Money Guardian and on 3 July 2003 in PR Newswire.

Sheffield Council had the story a month earlier than that, while The Scottish Parliament had already discussed ENCAMS' 2002 Dog Fouling survey with great interest. PDF Download.

In its ‘Control of Dog Fouling Survey 2002’ the Environmental Campaign (ENCAMS), which runs the Keep Britain Tidy campaign, estimates that the dog population in the UK is between 6.5 million and 7.4 million, and that collectively they produce 1,000 tonnes of excrement per day.

Less than our newspapers then. And only 8% of this down to Scottish mutts before you start. But the facts soon wiped away those three days you had in hand eh Jon?

Wikipedia has the whole enterprise kicking off in 1955. While Charitable Status was first secured under the KBT brand in September 1984. And ENCAMS got theirs on 28 Sep 1998. Phew. Thank goodness the MSM still has fact checkers. Otherwise they'd be no better than bloggers.