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.

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

Andy

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

Mark Blewett wrote:


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

Well spotted Mark. I should have seen that.

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


Yet today the search engine finds it on "lord nelson bridge" with no
problem.

Either the index wasn't up to date, or (more likely!) I can't type.

Andy

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.

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

Andy

The link worked for me.

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?
:-)

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

"Richard J." wrote in message
...
Andy Champ wrote:
Richard J. wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3717685.stm:

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?

LOL.

I heard that the bridge was left down because the ship hadn't paid the
congestion charge.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

LOL.

I heard that the bridge was left down because the ship hadn't paid the
congestion charge.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped

Nice one, John!

Marc.