Case Study 4.1: Verifying a Bizarre Beach Ball During a Storm Philippa Law and Caroline Bannock lead GuardianWitness, the Guardian’s open journalism platform where readers share their videos, images and stories. Bannock was previously a senior news producer and acting foreign-editor for Channel 4 News. She tweets at @carlanine1. Law was a BBC radio producer and has a Ph.D. in audience participation for minority language media. She tweets at @philonski . ­2 Storm force winds and rain brought flooding and power outages to the south of the U.K. in October 2013. This event affected a lot of people, so to widen and enrich the Guardian’s coverage, we asked our readers to share their photos, videos and stories of the disruption via our user-generated content platform, GuardianWitness. Among the contributions we received was a bizarre photo3 of what appeared to be a giant multicolored beach ball, at least twice the height of a double decker bus, on the loose at Old 42