Saved from cat-astrophe: Four cats are rescued from a sinking ship by Thai navy 

Saved from cat-astrophe: Four cats are rescued from a sinking ship by Thai navy Group of Thai navy sailors rescued four ginger cats from burning boat near the island of Koh Adang yesterday All eight crew members of the boat had been rescued and the navy were checking the vessel for an oil spill That was … Read more

PETER HOSKIN reviews The Sinking City – Deluxe Edition and Persona 5 – Strikers 

Town where Lovecraft lurks round every corner: PETER HOSKIN reviews The Sinking City – Deluxe Edition and Persona 5 – Strikers By Peter Hoskin For The Daily Mail Published: 02:05 GMT, 26 February 2021 | Updated: 02:05 GMT, 26 February 2021 The Sinking City: Deluxe Edition (Playstation 5 – £53.99) Rating: Lovecraft? Then you’re going … Read more

Got that sinking feeling! Rescue mission fails as tide swamps digger that got stuck on a beach

Got that sinking feeling! Rescue mission fails as tide swamps digger that got stuck on a beach… while trying to move a stranded truck The digger was sent to the front to save a truck from the incoming tide at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset  While the truck was eventually moved, the digger got stuck instead and remained … Read more

Subsidence: FIFTH of the world’s population will be affected by sinking land by 2040

FIFTH of the world’s population will be affected by sinking land by 2040 due to human and natural removal of groundwater, model predicts Researchers led from Spain created a new model of global subsidence risks The phenomenon could come to threaten 635 million people within two decades Most of the populations at greater risk are in … Read more

Nigel Farage accuses Piers Morgan of ‘sinking to the gutter’ in row over Trump ‘bleach,’ comment

Nigel Farage accused Piers Morgan of ‘sinking to the gutter,’ in what he declared ‘the lowest grade interview in 20 years,’ during a heated debate on whether Donald Trump told people to inject bleach to beat Covid-19. The Brexit Party-leader was appearing live from the Trump Hotel in Washington DC as part of Good Morning … Read more

RMS Titanic: Solar flare may have contributed to the sinking of the luxury liner, study suggests

The RMS Titanic may have only taken the exact fateful course that saw it holed and sunk by an iceberg on April 15, 1912 because a solar flare threw off the vessel’s compass readings, a study has proposed.  According to a US-based meteorologist, the liner’s last night sailing the Atlantic was illuminated by the aurora borealis — … Read more

Father crashes his sinking boat onto rocks so his family can escape to safety

Quick-thinking father deliberately rams his sinking boat onto rocks to rescue his baby and three children A father deliberately ran his sinking boat aground to allow his family escape  The man was with his family near Torquay when the vessel started taking water  Several teenagers assisted the family scramble onto the rocks and off the … Read more

Fire crew saves family after their canal barge gets WEDGED in lock and starts SINKING 

So much for being a NARROW boat! Fire crew saves family after their canal barge gets WEDGED in lock and starts SINKING West Midlands Fire Service called to Botterham Lock in Wombourne, at 10.22am Three people left stranded on the canal boat after it got wedged in the lock Fire crews rescued all three on … Read more

Three migrants rescued from sinking kayak by builder swimming from Dover to Calais for charity

Three migrants were rescued from their sinking inflatable kayak by a builder on his way home to Britain after swimming from Dover to Calais for charity today. Justin Legge, 49, started the 21-mile journey at 1.30am, raising almost £24,000 in memory of a friend who died of leukaemia. He was on his way back across … Read more