Dubious stats (was Jubilee bells ringing)

[John Harrison]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103234/Britains-bells-ring-musical-celebration-jubilee.html?ito=feeds-newsxml.  		 	 

It says: 'Britain has about 6,000 bell towers and enough experienced
bellringers to operate just over 2,000 of them."

Where does that figure come from?  

AFIA 2 out of 3 towers aren't silent.  And if they divide number of ringers
by number of bells, again AFIA, the number isn't far from 1.

Regards

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John Harrison
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