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The Sun, a UFO, a wind turbine - and a small newspaper group (er, that's us)

"Turbinegate" - come on, surely it's only a matter of time? - trundles on this morning with more wild and woolly reports of how the windfarm in Lincolnshire came to be damaged. Was it a UFO or a stealth bomber? Reports of flashing lights near the site of the incident were seemingly debunked by the Guardian's very own Emily Bell, director of digital content, who said she had hosted a fireworks party for her father's birthday very near the scene on the same night. The Sun, which blew the story wide open with its splash yesterday, followed up with another full page of guff and spurious speculation - sorry, insightful reporting - today. But what's this, in the final paragraph of today's Sun report? "But a theory by Emily Bell, a local blogger for a small newspaper group, that the UFOs were fireworks from her dad's 80th birthday party were branded ridiculous." As we all know, it's not size that counts - it's what you do with it.

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