Problem with the Chronicle and similar regional newspapers is that they have been taken over by larger and more centralised 'agencies' and so have little real contact with their communities. This is because they have closed a lot of local offices and have single 'journalists' covering a very large area. Hence why Peter Morse is able to spread himself so much lately. So, in this instance, whoever the picture editor is just chose a picture from a 'library' and possibly didn't have any knowledge of the context.