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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Body found in search for girl missing in Thames
A body has been found in the search for a girl missing in the River Thames in Kent. Police were called at 13:45 BST on Friday after concerns were raised for two children who had entered the river at Royal Pier Road in Gravesend. Emergency services attended the scene, where a boy was retrieved from the water and taken to a local hospital. He remains in a stable condition. At about 11:40 BST on Saturday, Kent Police and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) recovered a body from the river, since confirmed to be that of the missing girl. Formal identification by the missing girl's next of kin has taken place, Kent Police said. The death is not being treated as suspicious at this stage and a report will be prepared for the coroner, the force added. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on X to get the latest alerts.
Irish Post
5 days ago
- Business
- Irish Post
Irish hotel launches exclusive ‘appointment only' whiskey tasting flight costing over £1k
A NEWLY opened Irish hotel has launched a whiskey tasting flight which can only be enjoyed by appointment and costs a whopping £1,608. Harbourview Hotel in Co. Antrim describes itself as a 'destination whiskey hotel'. Adrian McLaughlin is co-owner of the Harbourview Hotel in Carnlough This week it has announced its Bushmills Whiskey tasting flight with Darryl McNally, who is the co-owner of the hotel and a former Bushmills master distiller. The selection on offer features some of the oldest and rarest whiskeys from the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery, including four iconic Bushmills whiskeys. The Harbourview 1608 Tasting Flight costs £1,608 And the £1,608 price of the experience is a nod to the year 1608, when Bushmills was awarded its license to distil. 'As Ireland's first ever destination whiskey hotel, we pride ourselves on offering the finest collection of whiskeys, alongside exceptional events and experiences,' Harbourview Hotel co-owner Adrian McLaughlin said. 'To celebrate the opening, we wanted to create something special, and we're proud to present this exclusive whiskey flight in tribute to the iconic Old Bushmills Distillery, which is located just 40 miles from the hotel on our beautiful Causeway Coast,' he explained. 'This exclusive tasting flight will be an experience to savour for whiskey connoisseurs that might not otherwise get the opportunity to taste such rare whiskeys. 'It is offered alongside a core collection of 11 flights, with prices ranging from £15 to £40, and a special 'Owners Collection' of rare whiskeys priced at £570, meaning there is a flight to suit every budget.' The exclusive tasing flight is an 'appointment only' experience The hotel's 'off menu' 1608 Whiskey Flight is bookable by appointment only and includes two of the oldest and rarest bottles ever to be released from the Old Bushmills Distillery: Bushmills 46 Year Old Secrets of the River Bush, which was released in March 2025, and the Bushmills 36 Year Old Hill Street Edition, which was released in February 2024. There are also two rare whiskeys from the Bushmills Causeway Collection, a 33-year-old port cask and 18-year-old Grand Cru cask. With only 20 1608 flights available, the hotel says it will be a 'once-in-a-lifetime experience for whiskey connoisseurs'. The hotel has also announced thay it will donate one 1608 whiskey flight and overnight stay to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for use in their ongoing fundraising activities to support their work. The hotel, located in Carnlough, near Ballymena, opened to guests earlier this month. See More: Antrim, Ballymena, Bushmills, Harbourview Hotel, Whiskey Flight
Metro
26-05-2025
- Metro
Man dies trying to save two children in difficulty in the sea off Skegness
A 60-year-old man drowned after trying to rescue two children in distress in the sea near Skegness. Shortly after 4pm on Sunday, the man entered the water near the Promenade in Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire, police said. Emergency services were called, but the man got into difficulty and died at the scene. An air ambulance, the coastguard and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution had been called to the scene. In a statement, Lincolnshire Police said: 'Our thoughts are with the man's family and loved ones at this very sad time.' More Trending No further information has been released about the children involved. The accident came just days after a four-year-old British boy drowned in a hotel pool in Tenerife. The youngster was reportedly pulled from the water by a lifeguard in the resort town of San Miguel de Abona. He had gone into cardiac arrest and was unresponsive, according to Spanish outlet Telecinco. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Can a £23,000,000 train upgrade save Britain's 'SkegVegas?'
BBC News
20-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Newcastle RNLI celebrates 200 years of saving lives at sea
The recent tragedies in Buncrana and Sligo where three boys lost their lives, serves as a brutal reminder of the dangers of open year, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in Northern Ireland said it came to the aid of 469 people – 16 of those were deemed to have had their lives are 46 RNLI stations across Ireland, strategically sited along the coastline and on major inland waterways. Ten of those are in Northern year one of them, Newcastle, County Down, celebrates its 200th anniversary. Like the rest of the RNLI fleet, Newcastle's iconic Mersey Class vessel (the Leonard Kent) will be retired and replaced by the faster, but smaller, Atlantic 85 at the end of this 2024 alone the Newcastle boat launched 18 times – helping 26 people and saving three lives. For those rescued, it can be a life changing experience. In August 1998, William Irvine went fishing with three friends on the rocks at Maggie's Leap just outside one of the group slipped into the water off the steep rocks, William took off his jumper and tried to use it as a rope. "I tried to pull him in but I slipped on the fishing rods and fell in as well," he told BBC News NI."Then one of the others tried to bring me in by using one of the fishing rods but a wave took me out further and brought him in and the fourth one tried to climb up the rocks but he slipped and fell in."During the ordeal, William lost consciousness."The next thing I remember was waking up on the lifeboat." One of the rescue crew that day was Brendan Rooney, a full-time musician who is still on the lifeboat crew."When we went in the first time we got the first two lads onto the boat," he said. "By then the Mersey Class boat had arrived so we transferred them onto the Mersey. On the second, we went back in but the Skeg hit a submerged rock on the way in, but luckily we got over it."Throughout the years Brendan has been involved in dozens of rescues, adding: "Too many to remember".What the sea throws at lifeboat teams when they respond to a call is different every time but the process of getting there remains constant. After a 999 call comes in to the coast guard, the RNLI may be asked to launch a vessel. Daniel Curran is the man responsible in Newcastle for making those decisions."We assess the situation and then the coastguard goes ahead and sounds the pagers", he explained."We make our way to the station as quickly as we can and everyone slots into their roles. And that's not just those on the boat; there's also an enormous number of people working as shore crew." Caoimhe Connor got involved in rescue operations nearly a decade ago after witnessing a tragedy at a beach where she was now the at the helm of one of Newcastle's boats, a role that requires a cool head in challenging circumstances, often late at night."You're jumping out of bed, half asleep. Even before I leave the house it's important to calm yourself down. "You have to know that the adrenalin rush isn't a great thing. Then you get this sense of calmness because you know you have to focus on what it is you have to do." Behind the wheel of the Mersey Class in Dundrum Bay is Niall McMurray - as the crew take part in one of their weekly training sessions."We've launched into Dundrum Bay and we're practicing different recovery techniques – in this case man overboard," he 'man' is a life size and heavyweight mannequin who is unceremoniously dumped in the water and lost. The crew is tasked with finding him and bringing him to safety. On return, many of the team's 40-strong volunteers are on hand to lift the Mersey out of the sea and bring casualties to safety.A tractor-type machine on caterpillar wheels pulls the boat onto a large trailer on the shore, the vessel is washed down and taken back to the boathouse, ready for its next is a process that will change dramatically in the New Year with the retirement of the Mersey received its first Mersey [The Eleanor and Bryant Girling] in 1992. In 2022, the Laurence Kent arrived having previously served in Margate and place of these boats will be the open-topped Atlantic Rooney says the Mersey can do 19 knots but the Atlantic can hit 35."We hope to get the training boat soon so we're looking forward to getting it in place," he said. "It'll be different for us as we've never experienced it and it will benefit the area."
Euronews
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Euronews
One dead and scores rescued after migrant boat sinks off French coast
One person died overnight after a small boat carrying migrants across the Channel ran into difficulties, French authorities said on Monday. The 'overloaded' boat sank off the coast of the northern French town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, according to the Maritime Prefect of the Channel and the North Sea. During the rescue operation, a French Navy helicopter spotted an unconscious person in the water. They were later declared dead by a medical team onboard the French tug Abeille Normandie. More than 60 others survived after being pulled from the water, including a mother and child who were airlifted to hospital in France. The Abeille Normandie recovered 50 people, while two British boats — a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) vessel and a UK Border Force boat — rescued a further 11. In the seven days to Saturday, 1,125 migrants reached the UK on small boats after crossing the Channel, which is one of the busiest waterways in the world. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised to clamp down on people smugglers who facilitate small boat crossings. Last week, Starmer caused controversy by warning that the UK risked becoming an 'island of strangers' unless more was done to cut immigration numbers. His comment followed the anti-immigration Reform UK party's victory in local elections on 1 May.
