About 30 people have had to be rescued from a rollercoaster after it stopped mid-ride. The Grand National at Blackpool Pleasure Beach broke down at about 11:55 BST as it approached the peak of a 62ft (19m) incline. Staff had to escort those on board, including a five-year-old boy, back down the steep track. A spokesman for the theme park said that, following checks, the ride was reopened an hour...
A row of Dorset beach chalets west of Lyme Regis is still under threat as concerns over land stability continue. Nine chalets overlooking Monmouth Beach have been demolished and Lyme Regis Town Council has withheld 17 site licences since a landslip in January. Deputy town clerk John Wright said the council “had to be cautious and for good reason” and added it had lost £39,029 in...
Police are trying to identify a woman whose body was found on a beach in Inverclyde on Monday. The discovery was made at 09:45 near Cromarty Grove at Inverkip Marina. Officers said the woman was found with a brown August Pfüller teddy bear. The woman is described as being white, between 30 and 50 years old, about 5ft 5in tall, of slim build, with shoulder-length blonde hair. The exact cause of...
Up to 20,000 tonnes of sand is to be moved from one end of an Edinburgh beach to the other in a bid to prevent homes from being flooded. Edinburgh City Council is to spend up to £60,000 moving the sand at Portobello Beach about a mile from the east side to the west. It follows huge storms in March 2010, which moved thousands of tonnes of sand along to the east of the beach. The council said the...