i newspaper, May 1, 2017
First, this story fails to mention where the incident happened. (It was Wolverhampton.) Second, ‘local’ is one of the most common superfluous words (others include ‘special’ and ‘up’). Of course the police officers were local. No reader would imagine they had dropped in from Manchester. And assuming that one of the officers is pictured with the survivor of the fire, which one is it? The reader should not have to assume or guess.
As I mentioned in the previous post, ellipses, or three dots, should be separated from the preceding word and each other by spaces, thus . . .