On Sat, 15 May 2004 23:06:41 +0000, Andy Champ
wrote:


Richard J. wrote:
An unusual London traffic incident today. A tall ship, the Lord Nelson,
struck Tower Bridge in an unsuccessful attempt to do a U-turn when the
skipper realised the bridge wasn't going to open.

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3717685.stm:
"The operators of the Lord Nelson thought they had requested the bridge
open for its journey from Southampton to West India Dock."


That link is dead,

Due to a trailing colon in the orginal message, try
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3717685.stm

and there are no search results for this on the BBC news site.

But there's a report on it he
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/stor...52&p=yx43x6558

Andy