Stricken ferry runs aground in northwest England
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A ferry that ran into difficulties in the Irish Sea, prompting British and Irish rescue teams to be scrambled, ran aground Thursday evening at Blackpool, northwest England, officials said.
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Thousands of packets of chocolate biscuits are washed up on the Lancashire shore from a stricken ferry.
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A roll-on roll-off ferry which ran into trouble in high winds in the Irish Sea runs aground off the Blackpool coast.
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A passenger train derailed Friday and slid down an embankment in a remote area of northwest England, causing numerous injuries, according to rescue workers.
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Fears of an environmental crisis grew last night as gales continued to batter a cargo ship loaded with more than 300 tonnes of oil which sank in the Channel 26 miles south-east of Portland Bill, spilling its load of timber.
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Thousands of tonnes of timber are washed on to south coast beaches after a cargo ship sinks off Dorset.
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An air and sea search and rescue operation was under way off the northwest coast of England after a light aircraft with two people on board crashed, police and coastguards told AFP.
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A passenger train from London to Scotland derailed Friday night in northwestern England, seriously injuring some passengers but causing no fatalities, officials said.
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One person was killed and dozens injured, hospitals said, when a high-speed passenger train derailed Friday leaving carriages skidding down an embankment in remote northwest England.
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The English-built Mirabella V yacht - believed to be the largest and most expensive in the world - runs aground.
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A passenger train derailed late Friday in northwestern England, police said. A passenger told the BBC that some of those aboard suffered broken bones
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More than 70 people are stuck on a ferry which is unable to dock in Belfast because its doors will not open.
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People going onto Blackpool beach to look at a stricken ferry are putting themselves at risk, say the Coastguard.
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Detectives examine material from the hull of a ferry after a yacht with three crew disappeared in the English Channel.
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British coastguards scrambled to rescue 20 crew from a storm-hit cargo ship in the English Channel, which was left drifting in heavy seas, a spokesman said Monday.
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A newly-wed couple are among those rescued after a ship was hit by a giant wave off the Isles of Scilly.
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A storm-lashed cargo ship which was abandoned by its crew after listing to 40 degrees sank early Tuesday in the English Channel, coastguards said.