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Grant Shapps has demanded a local council cough-up £64million to help repair closed Hammersmith Bridge and end years of motoring misery for drivers, according to reports. The Transport Secretary reportedly wants Hammersmith and Fulham Council to cover almost half the costs of the repairs to the 133-year-old west London bridge - which was suddenly closed in August this year after cracks were discovered in the structure. The shut-down, which followed a closure to vehicles in April 2019, has cau...

Hammersmith Bridge won’t reopen until Motts engineers deem it safe   Hammersmith & Fulham Council leader Stephen Cowan has played down government assertions that Hammersmith Bridge could soon reopen to pedestrians and cyclists. In a strongly-worded statement, Cowan criticised the Department for Transports (DfTs) Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce for sharing inspection reports with the press before the council or the council’s bridge maintenance contractor Mott MacDonald. He added that the bridg...

In October, the MCIB’s report into the death of a long West Cork fisherman 12 months previously suggested that he may have fallen overboard from this open-deck vessel. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the MCIB determined that 23-year-old Kodie Healy was not wearing a lifejacket or personal flotation device (PFD) prior to the indecent in Dunmanus Bay on 9 October 2019 — and he may not have been aware of a personal locator beacon on his vessel. The MCIB was unable to establish the cause o...

A government commission report has said Hammersmith Bridge is potentially safe to partially reopen to pedestrians and cyclists.

The -- it is unusual actually for pilots to lose their lives because aviation is a pretty safe operation. but accidents happen. any time somebody can get out of any type of accident whether its a car or whatever. [ inaudible question ] >> it would appear the pilot did everything by the book -- [ inaudible ] >> i am not even going to go there. theres no way to -- youre talking where youre asking me to analyze something -- >> let me rephrase. based on your experience the plane lands right side up,...

Fatalities. the -- it is unusual for pilots to lose their lives because aviation is a pretty safe operation. but there are events that it happens. as i said, any time someone can get out of any type of accident, a car or whatever -- >> mr. jones, do you characterize this as it appeared that the pilot did everything by the book and this was a textbook emergency landing based on what you see here? >> im not even -- youre talking where youre asking me to analyze something. >> let me rephrase it. ba...

Because aviation is a pretty safe operation. but there are events that happen. as i said, anytime somebody can get out of any type of accident, whether its a car or whatever. [ reporter asking question ] >> i am not even going to go there. there is no way to -- youre talking where youre asking me to analyze something that at this -- >> based on your experience thus far, the plane lands right side up, fairly in tact. does it look like it was done in a remote area -- >> i would say anytime that a ...

The -- it is unusual actually for pilots to lose their lives because aviation is a pretty safe operation. but accidents happen. any time somebody can get out of any type of accident whether its a car or whatever. [ inaudible question ] >> it would appear the pilot did everything by the book -- [ inaudible ] >> i am not even going to go there. theres no way to -- youre talking where youre asking me to analyze something -- >> let me rephrase. based on your experience the plane lands right side up,...

The -- it is unusual actually for pilots to lose their lives because aviation is a pretty safe operation. but accidents happen. any time somebody can get out of any type of accident whether its a car or whatever. [ inaudible question ] >> it would appear the pilot did everything by the book -- [ inaudible ] >> i am not even going to go there. theres no way to -- youre talking where youre asking me to analyze something -- >> let me rephrase. based on your experience the plane lands right side up,...

more than 20 people still unaccounted for. rescuers are blowing holes in the side of the ship to get where they think people might be located. they found five bodies yesterday nap matt c . confirm death toll is 11. the man at the controls that might is now under house arrest today. prosecutors say they are speechless that hes even out of jail. they want to charge him with manslaughter and abandoning his post. we also learned today that it might not be the first time that that same ship...