Construction work has started on Gwrych Castle in Wales just days after it was announced it would play host to I’m A Celebrity this year. It was revealed on Friday that the hit show will be filmed in Wales and not the usual venue in Queensland, Australia, because of coronavirus. ITV have instead secured Gwrych … Read more
Firefighters dodge flaming tyre as explodes and flies off a burning crane in dramatic footage Three firefighters were injured in the accident in Kozlany, Czech Republic The flaming tyre narrowly missed the firefighters and hits a nearby building It took forty minutes to tackle the blaze caused by a technical fault on July 30 By … Read more
The family of a ‘loyal and caring’ woman killed when a crane collapsed onto their house in east London said they have been left ‘beyond devastated’. June Harvey, 85, was killed and at least four others injured in the incident on Wednesday last week, including a construction worker who was taken to hospital in a … Read more
A man has told of his ‘miracle’ escape after a 65ft crane collapsed on to his house in east London, killing his 85-year-old great aunt. Sam Atkinson, 28, and his mother Jacqueline Atkinson, 63, survived but June Harvey died during the tragic incident in Bow at 2pm yesterday. Specialist firefighters are today working to recover her … Read more
The Health and Safety Executive has launched an investigation after a ‘woman in her 80s’ died and four people were injured when a 65ft crane collapsed on houses in east London. The rig, which had been working on a new block of flats, smashed through the roofs of two terraced homes on Compton Close, Bow, … Read more
Massive 20-metre crane collapses onto terraced home in east London as firefighters try to rescue people trapped inside A 20-metre-high crane collapsed onto houses on Gale St in Bow, east London One man who was ‘stuck’ under the crane has been rescue by fire crews Several vehicles and buildings have damaged – Police say to … Read more
That’s shady! Crane driver taunts sunbather by casting a shadow over him and then following him when he tries to move back into the sun A crane driver used the shadow cast by his lifting hook to annoy a sunbather He recorded the joke while forcing the sun-seeker to move out of the shade The … Read more
Bored with standard holiday rentals? Blasé about top-end hotels, or Premier Inns and Travelodges? Never fear — websites are overflowing with madcap options, from sleeping in a former Soviet prison to a suite in a crane in Amsterdam, and a hut in the Arctic. Here are ten of the wackiest… Bed down on an Arctic … Read more