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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 caused major disruption to traffic in the area, with 16,000 people and 22,000 vehicles a day using the ...

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 Transport's (DfT's) 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 bridge will only reopen when Mott MacDonald engineers consider it safe to do so. In response Cowan said...

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 of the incident on 8 March in which the 78-year-old experienced angler drowned. But the fact his boat...

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

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