[JdeBP]

That is probably because it is a Newsquest Media publication, rather than a Reach PLC publication. Reach PLC journalism is sometimes laughably bad, sometimes lamentably.

Some Newsquest Media titles are running the rather longer piece from the Press Association. For example:

https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/national/23819640.fam...

[mellosouls]

Yes, I was particularly thinking of Retch PLC, which Private Eye recently reckoned had had one of its own senior execs complaining about how bad the website was.