Latest update is that Morag
Kinniburgh of BBC Scotland has replied to my email and is now aware of what I
have been writing. In her defence, motor rallying, and to a certain extent
motor racing, are regarded by many news outlets as 'minority' sports. On that
basis few 'staffers' are fully aware of the nature of the sport, it's rules, regulation
and governance. Nor are they fully aware of how events are run and the
dedicated band of 'professional' amateurs who organise and manage these events.
And given the language that is being used in some of the Court documents, there
is a distinct lack of knowledge there too.
On a further point, Lori Carnochan from
ITV Borders, who many of us know, has copied and pasted my reports and passed
them to her Newsroom and given them my telephone number! We have one good
friend on our side.
Some of you have been asking how we can
follow proceedings at the Court in Edinburgh. The short answer is, we can't
unless we attend in person. The FAI proceedings are not televised and nothing
will be issued by the Court until the conclusion of the FAI itself.
However, I did suggest to Morag that
perhaps she should try and find out why two such quite different accidents have
been combined into one Fatal Accident Inquiry when the circumstances were entirely
different.
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