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BBC News
01-08-2025
- General
- BBC News
St Gerrans Church spire is under threat of falling down
A campaign has been launched to prevent the collapse of a historic church spire built as a navigation stone exterior of the tower of St Gerrans Church in Cornwall is so badly eroded water has to be collected in buckets whenever it rains. Now the woodwork that holds the spire together is also under threat. Fundraising group Save Our Spire has raised more than £151,000 but needs another £66,000 so urgent work can be carried out before winter storms arrive. Group member James Leggate said: "The tower was built and 100 years later the spire was added at the request of local fishermen - it's still a navigation point on Admiralty Charts." Residents of Portscatho and Gerrans packed a meeting called to discuss the threat to the spire and the need to find £66,000 to save it. Nev Meek, president of The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies, said churches were unique in their value to the community."There's something about a church that is really important to communities, community cohesion and their identity," he said."It really seems to have an impact on the community that no other building has. "The spire on Gerrans church dates from the 15th Century and they're relatively unusual on Cornish churches. So the fact that it's got this lovely spire is really special for us here in Gerrans." Mr Meek said he was also passionate about saving the spire for personal reasons."Not only do I have an interest in making sure our tangible cultural heritage is protected and preserved but I have a personal involvement."It's the church where I was baptised, where my mother was baptised and buried. There are countless generations of my family that are buried in the churchyard, watched over by the steeple and the church," he said Village resident Robin Edwards said: "Ultimately the spire on the church is falling down, it's in a bad state of repair."There's been a fantastic team that have been fundraising for at least a year but they've come up with a shortfall."They've got some grants and lottery money but ultimately we're short by about £66,000."Mr Edwards said the spire was an important landmark."You can see it (the spire) from miles around, it's a very dominant, very important piece of architecture."It's a piece of history and a focal point of the two villages of Gerrans and Portscatho."It falls on all of us as custodians of our villages and members of the community to do what we can, if we don't act we could lose this wonderful piece of architecture and history, " he said.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Denmark starts rebuilding historic stock exchange destroyed by fire
STORY: :: Denmark is rebuilding its historic stock exchange, destroyed by a fire a year ago :: April 16, 2024 :: Copenhagen, Denmark :: April 15, 2025 :: Lars Daugaard Jepsen, Head of Reconstruction, Danish Chamber of Commerce "Danes care about this building so very much because it's the first listed building (in Denmark). It has been a part of Danish history for 400 years and everything in (Danish) business is invented here. So we have the first national bank here, we had the first insurance company, we had the first listed company, we had the first business school, we had the first of nearly everything here. We had the first communication line to England from this very building." The 400-year-old building, parts of which were largely destroyed in the fire last year, has been covered by an outer housing as the cleanup, planning and rebuilding of the stock exchange are to take place. The fire that ripped through the building on April 16 destroyed parts of the historic structure. The blaze toppled the spire of the Old Stock Exchange and collapsed a large part of the roof, in scenes reminiscent of the fire that engulfed the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 2019.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Quake-damaged temple misidentified as sacred site in Myanmar's Yangon city
"Shwedagon Pagoda, the treasured pagoda in Myanmar, was seriously damaged. #Shwedagon #EarthquakeinMyanmar," reads a Thai-language Facebook post circulating in Thailand on March 28, 2025. It includes a video that shows the spire of a golden pagoda collapsing from tremors. Myanmar's ruling junta has said more than 2,000 people have been killed following the shallow 7.7 magnitude quake that devastated cities across the country. Central Mandalay city, the second biggest with 1.7 million inhabitants suffered some of the worst destruction (archived link). The tremor flattened a building as far away as Bangkok in neighbouring Thailand, killing at least 20 people. Similar posts from other Thai users also claimed the video shows the revered Shwedagon pagoda that dominates Yangon's skyline but an AFP journalist saw the site on April 1 and confirmed it has not been damaged. A reverse image search on Google using the video's keyframes found an identical TikTok video published on the day of the quake (archived link). The Burmese caption reads in English as: "Zay Ti Gyi in Pindaya collapsed due to the earthquake at 1:51pm. I am deeply saddened by the crying of the people. Please kindly donate." AFP was able to confirm the video shows the Zay Ti Gyi temple in Pindaya in Shan state by comparing it with a picture of the site geotagged on Google Maps and showing the same spire. An AFP picture of the Shwedagon pagoda -- located 400 kilometres from the Zay Ti Gyi temple -- shows a different and much larger structure.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Quake-damaged temple misidentified as sacred site in Myanmar's Yangon city
"Shwedagon Pagoda, the treasured pagoda in Myanmar, was seriously damaged. #Shwedagon #EarthquakeinMyanmar," reads a Thai-language Facebook post circulating in Thailand on March 28, 2025. It includes a video that shows the spire of a golden pagoda collapsing from tremors. Myanmar's ruling junta has said more than 2,000 people have been killed following the shallow 7.7 magnitude quake that devastated cities across the country. Central Mandalay city, the second biggest with 1.7 million inhabitants suffered some of the worst destruction (archived link). The tremor flattened a building as far away as Bangkok in neighbouring Thailand, killing at least 20 people. Similar posts from other Thai users also claimed the video shows the revered Shwedagon pagoda that dominates Yangon's skyline but an AFP journalist saw the site on April 1 and confirmed it has not been damaged. A reverse image search on Google using the video's keyframes found an identical TikTok video published on the day of the quake (archived link). The Burmese caption reads in English as: "Zay Ti Gyi in Pindaya collapsed due to the earthquake at 1:51pm. I am deeply saddened by the crying of the people. Please kindly donate." AFP was able to confirm the video shows the Zay Ti Gyi temple in Pindaya in Shan state by comparing it with a picture of the site geotagged on Google Maps and showing the same spire. An AFP picture of the Shwedagon pagoda -- located 400 kilometres from the Zay Ti Gyi temple -- shows a different and much larger structure.
AFP
01-04-2025
- AFP
Quake-damaged temple misidentified as sacred site in Myanmar's Yangon city
"Shwedagon Pagoda, the treasured pagoda in Myanmar, was seriously damaged. #Shwedagon #EarthquakeinMyanmar," reads a Thai-language Facebook post circulating in Thailand on March 28, 2025. It includes a video that shows the spire of a golden pagoda collapsing from tremors. Myanmar's ruling junta has said more than 2,000 people have been killed following the shallow 7.7 magnitude quake that devastated cities across the country. Central Mandalay city, the second biggest with 1.7 million inhabitants suffered some of the worst destruction (archived link). The tremor flattened a building as far away as Bangkok in neighbouring Thailand, killing at least 20 people. Image Screenshot of the false Facebook post, taken March 31, 2025 Similar posts from other Thai users also claimed the video shows the revered Shwedagon pagoda that dominates Yangon's skyline but an AFP journalist saw the site on April 1 and confirmed it has not been damaged. A reverse image search on Google using the video's keyframes found an identical TikTok video published on the day of the quake (archived link). The Burmese caption reads in English as: "Zay Ti Gyi in Pindaya collapsed due to the earthquake at 1:51pm. I am deeply saddened by the crying of the people. Please kindly donate." Image Screenshot comparison between the false Facebook post (L) and the TikTok post AFP was able to confirm the video shows the Zay Ti Gyi temple in Pindaya in Shan state by comparing it with a picture of the site geotagged on Google Maps and showing the same spire. Image Screenshot comparison between the TikTok video (L) and the Google Maps image An AFP picture of the Shwedagon pagoda -- located 400 kilometres from the Zay Ti Gyi temple -- shows a different and much larger structure.
