http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53085 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 13:14:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53085#post-153173 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:21:44 +0000 Dick Everyman 153173@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Happens to the best of us.....</p> <p>Well done, and keep feeding the machine! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53085#post-153170 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:15:13 +0000 Boutros 153170@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Had some stories rewritten before but this is the first time I've had a NiB published without it containing a single word of the original sub, except perhaps one - Birmingham.<br /> I'll take the credit for the idea though. Oh yes. Thank you very much. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53085#post-152867 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:16:02 +0000 Dick Everyman 152867@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think the location of the National Sea Life Centre in Brindley Place may have had something to do with the decision for the closure of shore-based maritime facilities. The danger of squawking kids putting their hands in tanks and being attacked by lobsters is far more important than the odd capsized trawler.</p> <p>5 Star fish </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53085#post-152864 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:07:36 +0000 Boutros 152864@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Maritime rescue heros are reportedly upset and disillusioned by the closure of shore-based facilities - especially those who have been reposted to the new coastguard facility in Perry Barr, Birmingham. There hasn't been a single incident requiring their inshore rescue skills since the day the £20million facility opened in January 2011.</p> <p>"We have the very latest self-righting vessel here," explained Tiger Clunes, lifeboat captain with 20 years' experience rescuing stricken mariners. "But the launch ramp into the canal is simply an inefficient and time-consuming way to reach the sea. Made worse by the fact that just 50 yards along is a motorway bridge tunnel we can't quite get through without dismantling the radio mast. That's a half-hour job. It hasn't been well thought out."</p> <p>The helicopter has been pressed into service on only one occasion. Clunes explains, "We had a call from a lady at the lido in Cannon Hill Park. She was clearly in distress. We scrambled the chopper from Birmingham International Airport and were on the scene in about an hour, not bad going because we only take hand luggage now. But when we got there we found the cause of her distress was that the lido was shut. It's now the forecourt of the Midland Arts Centre." </p>