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

Did your newsreader include the punctuation in the link? (OE doesn't.)
Putting either "tall ship" or "Tower Bridge" in the BBC News search box
finds the report straight away. Not a good day for navigation, is it?
:-)

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Richard J.
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