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BBC News
15-03-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Work starts to remove sunken boats from River Avon
Work has begun to remove five sunken boats from the River Avon in and North East Somerset Council (BANES) said the submerged vessels near Pulteney Weir are dangerous to others and pose a pollution Tim Ball, cabinet member for neighbourhood services, said: "We have exhausted our attempts to work with the owners to arrange self-recovery, so as a last resort we will be carrying out the operation on their behalf."The work begins on Saturday and is expected to last approximately one week. "We're chasing the owners for recovery costs when we know who exactly owns the boats - but we only know one or two of them," Mr Ball council is hoping to recover the £72,600 costs of the removal once the work is completed."The sunken boats have been creating a hazard in the waterway and posing a risk to its ecology for a long time, however they are the property of the boat owners who are responsible for them," Mr Ball of the boats have been left for several years, and the logistics of such an operation present a challenge, the council said."Some of them are in difficult positions and whether we can actually pull them out on Wednesday and Thursday next week is largely dependent on the weather," Mr Ball said. The same project was attempted last year but was abandoned due to the works are being done as part of the council's Better Moorings Project, which seeks to address a range of boat mooring-related other sunken boats along the river have already been removed by the Canal and River council has promised to try to minimize disruption, but sections of the towpath will be closed while the boats are removed.
BBC News
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Headlines: Glastonbury Festival headliners and sunken boats
Here's our daily pick of stories from across local websites in the West of England, and interesting content from social media. Our pick of local website stories Bath and North East Somerset Council is spending £72,000 to remove five sunken boats from the River Avon, according to Somerset Live. In Weston-super-Mare, the Mercury has celebrated 60 years of service for one RNLI volunteer – who worked as boat crew until he hit the maximum age Gloucestershire Live is reporting temporary restrictions are in place at two Gloucestershire hospitals to stop the spread of norovirus. Our top three from yesterday What to watch on social media Glastonbury Festival confirming its headliners has created a stir online. Big names including1975 and Olivia Rodrigo will perform on the Pyramid Stage this Animal Shelter has shared a post on World Book Day to promote their Paws for Reading project, where children read to a rescue Gloucester City AFC has released a statement condemning racist language thought to have been used last Saturday, and says it is carrying out an internal after 45 reports of car meets in Swindon between July 2023 and July 2024, the council says it's considering a ban on all unauthorised meets.
