Is a super-volcano just 390 miles from London about to erupt?

My colleagues at Northcliffe House have left the Question to Which the Answer is No generator on over the bank holiday weekend. Start the year as you mean to go on, I say. Number 747* in the series.

This one has been done so well that the fine detail looks almost hand-made. The “390 miles from London”, as if all locations mentioned in the Daily Mail have to be given in this form. Complete with map (pictured here).

The picture spread on the Mail website is marvellous: 1. idyllic lakeside view (“Hidden menace: Laacher See looks tranquil, but beneath its waters lies a volcano that could devastate Europe”); 2. higher view of lake looking like a crater; 3. photo of a volcano (“The Laacher See volcano is similar in size to Mount Pinatubo, which caused a 0.5C drop in global temperatures when it erupted in 1991″ – if it were on television the voiceover would be: “It’s volcanoes like these …”); 4. Map. With concentric rings.

Thanks to BDP1979.

*As well as being the number of a famous aeroplane, the first family car that I can remember had the Indian number plate MYM 747. It was a Hindustan Ambassador (a Morris Oxford made in India under licence). Or possibly a Fiat.

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