Â£2m lifeboat's rescue called off
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Efforts to free a Â£2m lifeboat, stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, are called off for the day.
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Spanish rescuers call off the search for 50 African migrants missing after a boat capsized near the Canary Islands.
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Wild weather was tonight hampering an operation involving British forces to rescue a Canadian submarine. Five British vessels are en-route to the stricken HMCS
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The Disasters Emergency Committee says it is "winding down" its tsunami aid appeal, expected to raise Â£200m.
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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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Twenty-strong crew saved after Greek-registered cargo ship gets into difficulties in Channel
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A ferry which ran aground at Cairnryan Harbour in the west of Scotland is refloated after more than 30 hours.
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Rescuers are  winding down their hunt for  Steve Fossett two weeks after his plane vanished over Nevada.
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Britain's biggest sale of lambs is cancelled after measures imposed following a new foot-and-mouth outbreak.
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FIRE AT SEA: The man died while being airlifted to hospital. Bad weather has delayed rescue of the remainder of the crew, who are adrift in waters northeast of Ireland.
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Rescue operations are under way after two ships run aground amid stormy seas
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Rescuers called off their active air search for Steve Fossett on Wednesday, but insisted they had not given up hope and would keep crews on standby to fly to sites where the U.S. adventurer's airplane may have crashed.
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The search for two people last seen on a makeshift raft in the sea near Hastings pier is called off for the night.
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Passengers and non-essential crew were airlifted off a ferry that had been at risk of capsizing in the Irish Sea during a storm on Thursday and later ran aground, coastguards said.
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Shortly after a dramatic rescue, in which the British solo sailor Mike Golding pulled his fellow racer Alex Thomson from a life raft on the Southern Ocean early yesterday morning, the two encountered another perilous situation when the top of Goldingâs mast broke in two places.
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MPs overturn a Tory move to set up a "lifeboat" fund for workers whose final-salary pension schemes went bust.
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Five people were rescued off the Cornish coast yesterday after drifting for seven days in a life-raft amid storms and 30ft waves after their boat sank near the Isles of Scilly.