Hmmm. They may have calmed down since the "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" glory days, but they still have a respectable level of crazy; they also have a very long tradition of fabricating stories about local authorities, in the knowledge that under English law a local authority can't sue for libel or provide any assistance to its staff to sue as individuals. If a story appears in the Mail but not anywhere else, it's a fairly safe bet they've made it up. ( can no doubt expand on the work the Mail did relentlessly promoting and popularising Andrew Wakefield's falsified research "proving" that measles vaccination is the cause of autism, and the numerous deaths in the subsequent and ongoing epidemic among Mail readers who refused to allow their children to be vaccinated.) –