“You’ll never guess what I saw in the town centre…”

Website of the Day: Wednesday July 14th

>> Big Whale on a Lorry
I’ve always enjoyed a site that tells a story, and this story concerns a man called Steve Deput and a 70 ft, 70 ton blue whale called Jonah. Now the blue whale is
a) the biggest animal ever seen on this planet
b) indigenous to the Pacific
and
c) rarely seen up close.
But Steve saw Jonah at very close quarters … on the back of a 100 ft lorry in the centre of Barnsley. For years he thought he imagined the whole thing, but the site explains how he pieced the story together and discovered evidence of other urban whale sightings throughout the UK from the late fifties to the early seventies! See also:
>> The Whale Tale on Radio 4’s Home Truths