Talk:Policeman from Sussex, UK pleads guilty to fraud over lost and found money

The main source for this article is today's Telegraph. At first glance, that source is not available online and so you may need to trust me on it. I will, of course, make a serious go of searching the paper's website in due course. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 19:20, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Google News UK gives BBC and Daily Mirror. There'll be more in due course when he's sentenced, no doubt. Bencherlite (talk) 19:41, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I'll take the Beeb; I don't think there's anything extra from the Mirror and if a source is to be chosen for the chop it ought to be the tabloid, imo. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 20:34, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm forced to give up on the online source hunt. It wasn't on the front page, listed under UK, listed under crime (most other stories from the last few days' print verions appeared) or obviously under an internal search on the offender's name. Therefore, the reviewer is forced to rely on my word for it rather like OR - unless, of course, they have a copy of today's paper. I believe there is a proper template for citing such offlne news coverage, but I'm damned if I know what it is. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 21:09, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Police sergeant
Surely this should be "Former police sergeant Peter Yeats, who until his arrest in September was a member of Sussex Police in England, UK," or "Mr Peter Yeats, who until his arrest in September was a police sergeant with Sussex Police in England, UK,"? I would have thought he lost his rank when he resigned. Matthewedwards (talk) 03:04, 6 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Short answer: Probably, yes. Long answer: It's somewhat debatable, since on the context of this story he will always be thought of as Sgt Yeats. Similarly, if it was, say, a train driver invalided after a crash and hence not working then the present tense 'Train driver compensated for lost earnings in 2005 crash;' "A train driver who was left unable to work after.... has received £40,000 in a court ruling today" would not actually jar or be out of place in a national paper. Anyway, whilst academically interesting, I'm bikeshedding and will change it. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 12:45, 6 November 2010 (UTC)