--- a/documents/genericScrapers.py
+++ b/documents/genericScrapers.py
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@
             edate = date.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
             doc = {'_id': dochash, 'agencyID': self.getAgencyID()
             , 'url': self.getURL(), 'docID': dochash,
-            "date": edate, "title": "Disclosure Log Updated", "description":  self.remove_control_chars(description), "diff": diff}
+            "date": edate, "title": "Disclosure Log Updated", 
+	    "description":  self.remove_control_chars(description), "diff": self.remove_control_chars(diff)}
             foidocsdb.save(doc)
         else:
             print "already saved"
@@ -197,13 +198,31 @@
 
     def getRows(self, table):
         return table.find_all('tr')
+    def findColumns(self, row):
+        return row.find_all('td')
+
+    def getDocHash(self, id,date, url):
+                        if id.string is None:
+			    print "no id, using date as hash"
+                            return scrape.mkhash(
+                                self.remove_control_chars(
+                                    url + (''.join(date.stripped_strings))))
+                        else:
+                            return scrape.mkhash(
+                                self.remove_control_chars(
+                                    url + (''.join(id.stripped_strings))))
 
     def getDate(self, content, entry, doc):
-        date = ''.join(content.stripped_strings).strip()
-        (a, b, c) = date.partition("(")
-        date = self.remove_control_chars(a.replace("Octber", "October").replace("1012","2012").replace("Janurary","January"))
-        print date
-        edate = parse(date, dayfirst=True, fuzzy=True).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+        strdate = ''.join(content.stripped_strings).strip()
+        (a, b, c) = strdate.partition("(")
+        strdate = self.remove_control_chars(a.replace("Octber", "October").replace("1012","2012").replace("Janrurary", "January").replace("1012","2012"))
+        print strdate
+        try:
+		edate = parse(strdate, dayfirst=True, fuzzy=True).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+	except ValueError:
+		print >> sys.stderr, "ERROR date invalid %s " % strdate
+		print >> sys.stderr, "ERROR date originally %s " % ''.join(content.stripped_strings).strip()
+		edate = date.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")  
         print edate
         doc.update({'date': edate})
         return
@@ -228,20 +247,13 @@
                 soup = BeautifulSoup(content)
                 table = self.getTable(soup)
                 for row in self.getRows(table):
-                    columns = row.find_all('td')
+                    columns = self.findColumns(row)
                     if len(columns) is self.getColumnCount():
                         (id, date, title,
                          description, notes) = self.getColumns(columns)
                         print self.remove_control_chars(
                             ''.join(id.stripped_strings))
-                        if id.string is None:
-                            dochash = scrape.mkhash(
-                                self.remove_control_chars(
-                                    url + (''.join(date.stripped_strings))))
-                        else:
-                            dochash = scrape.mkhash(
-                                self.remove_control_chars(
-                                    url + (''.join(id.stripped_strings))))
+                        dochash = self.getDocHash(id,date,url)
                         doc = foidocsdb.get(dochash)
 
                         if doc is None:
@@ -266,8 +278,7 @@
                                          'Summary of FOIrequest received by agency/minister',
                                          'Summary of FOI request received', 'Description of    FOI Request',
                                          "FOI request", 'Results 1 to 67 of 67']
-                            if doc['title'] not in badtitles\
-                            and doc['description'] != '':
+                            if doc['title'] not in badtitles and 'description' in doc.keys() and doc['description'] != '':
                                 print "saving"
                                 foidocsdb.save(doc)
                         else:
@@ -277,6 +288,6 @@
                         print "header row"
 
                     else:
-                        print "ERROR number of columns incorrect"
+                        print >> sys.stderr, "ERROR number of columns incorrect"
                         print row