Stricken Boat a Hazard: Council
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A 15m boat, which is believed to have caught fire and sunk, is a hazard for boaties off Coromandel's Moturoa Island.   The boat sank early yesterday morning and two masts are sticking out of the water.   It's lying 100m offshore west of Moturua in about six metres of water.
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Flooding causes cancellation of train services and problems on the roads
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Wrecks and abandoned munitions around the British coast risk exploding unpredictably, an expert says.
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Britain's old ships are being dismantled in "unacceptable" conditions in the developing world, an MPs' committee says.
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Parts of the UK could face flooding as severe gales meet this year's highest tides, weather forecasters warn.
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Further severe weather could bring fresh problems for areas already battered by heavy rain and gales, the Environment Agency warns.
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Fire crews in Powys use a boat to rescue those stranded, as flooding causes yet more disruption.
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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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Coastguards warn lives are put at risk by people not knowing who to phone for help, as a safety campaign begins.
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Firefighters battle to rescue dozens of residents by boat after they became stranded by flood waters.
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Bad weather and overloading sank a  boat on a lake between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda  and at least 35 people were feared drowned, a local shipping  official said on Tuesday.
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People may be unable to return to flooded homes in South Yorkshire for months, a government minister says.
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned
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By Rowena Coetsee, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 12--EAST COUNTY -- Old age has cost two Delta communities their fireboat, but fire district officials say the replacement they have in mind will compensate for those losses.
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International relief agencies were concentrating their efforts on countries least able to cope with what officials said Monday was &quot;unprecedented&quot; devastation wrought by tidal
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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Crews contesting this year's Sydney to Hobart yacht race starting on Boxing Day will face the most severe weather conditions since 1998, when six sailors drowned, meteorologists warned.