May 15th 04, 10:22 PM
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Tall ship hits Tower Bridge
Andy Champ wrote:
Richard J. wrote:
An unusual London traffic incident today. A tall ship, the Lord
Nelson, struck Tower Bridge in an unsuccessful attempt to do a
U-turn when the skipper realised the bridge wasn't going to open.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3717685.stm:
"The operators of the Lord Nelson thought they had requested the
bridge open for its journey from Southampton to West India Dock."
That link is dead, and there are no search results for this on the BBC
news site.
But there's a report on it he
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/stor...52&p=yx43x6558
Andy
The link worked for me.
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