Schools in Tadcaster

A shared mistake, published recently in the Yorkshire Post and the Daily Mail.

Published on 14 January in the Daily Mail, Robert Hardman, in an article that includes a photograph of him in Tadcaster, writes:

Meanwhile, all the banks and schools are on the west bank, meaning serious disruption for those on the east.

The following day, Grant Woodward wrote an article for the Yorkshire Post. He also visited the town, and in the article he quotes local resident Irene Bulmer:

“The supermarket and medical centre are on one side and the pharmacy, banks and everything else on the other. All the schools are there too, it must be horrendous for parents.”

The point is, it's not true. Tadcaster East Community Primary School is definitely on the east side of town. It must just be an unlikely coincidence that both articles make exactly the same mistake.