I've been quite shocked at a gross error (or approximation) in a BBC article about Belgium today :
Mouscron is not anywhere near Brussels. The nearest big cities are Lille or Roubaix in France, or Courtrai, Tournai or even Ghent, in Belgium. Please check the map. Then Mouscron would not be as much south-west of Brussels as almost perfectly west of it (at the same latitude as the ring road). With such approximations, they could as well have said it was east of London or North of Paris...
BBC said:The syndicate includes the owners and patrons of the cafe La Fraternelle in the town Mouscron, south-west of Brussels.
Mouscron is not anywhere near Brussels. The nearest big cities are Lille or Roubaix in France, or Courtrai, Tournai or even Ghent, in Belgium. Please check the map. Then Mouscron would not be as much south-west of Brussels as almost perfectly west of it (at the same latitude as the ring road). With such approximations, they could as well have said it was east of London or North of Paris...