Trimaran stuck on Joss Bay
The trimaran was taking on board water yesterday evening. Ramsgate lifeboat launched and the crew managed to beach at Joss Bay. Efforts were made to re-float but the stricken yacht was still there this morning.
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Trimaran stuck on the sands
The trimaran was taking on board water yesterday evening. Ramsgate lifeboat launched and the crew managed to beach at Joss Bay. Efforts were made to re-float but the stricken yacht was still there this morning.
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10 year old girl sexually assaulted on a Dorset beach
Police are hunting a man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl on Studland beach in Dorset.
A Dorset Police spokesman said: “The girl was playing in the sand dunes when she was approached by the suspect, who sexually assaulted her.”
Police have issued a description of the attacker. He was aged 50 to 70, with brown hair and a hair lip.
He wore a green jacket and sunglasses and carried a back pack.
The attack was reported at 6pm on Friday
Anyone with information should contact Bournemouth CID on 101 and ask for Det Sgt Wright regarding incident 551/10.
Woman dies after swimming group are rescued in Sussex
A 31-year-old woman who got into difficulties while bathing in the sea at Camber, near Rye, yesterday has died in hospital.
Tanzeela Ajmal of Tisbury Road, Norbury, was in a group of four people who were on the beach last weekend. Paramedics were joined by police and members of Rother District Council's Coastal Control Officer's beach patrol in treating the group.
Mrs Ajmal was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital at Brighton, where she died.
Three others, also from the Croydon area, were taken to the Conquest Hospital at Hastings, two of them in a critical condition with suspected lung problems from water ingestion and hypothermia.
They have all recovered and have been discharged from hospital
PCSO Dan Bevan, who was on duty on the beach said: "This is desperately sad news. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this time."
Litter louts spoil Brighton Beach
Beer bottles, sleeping bags and plastic sacks are strewn over Brighton Beach, following this week's sunny weather.
Litter louts have left behind piles of junk, which local cleaners have struggled to clean up.
Public meeting follows sewage leak
A public meeting will be held later to investigate why untreated sewage leaked from a water treatment facility, contaminating 16 miles of the Kent coastline.
Thanet District Council was forced to close 22 beaches after the leak from Southern Water's Foreness Point pumping station.
It's believed that the plant discharged the sewage into the sea after it failed to cope with heavy rainfall.
The Environment Agency and Southern Water will both be represented at the meeting, with business leaders calling on the company to provide compensation following the beach closures.
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Queen Victoria's private beach opening for first time
Queen Victoria's private beach where she first took a swim in the sea is to be opened to the public for the first time this summer. The stretch of seafront at Osborne, the monarch's seaside home on the Isle of Wight, has never been accessible to the general public.
But now English Heritage has restored Victoria's original bathing machine to the site prior to its opening on July 27. Osborne House, near East Cowes, was a popular retreat for Victoria who enjoyedfamily holidays at the seaside mansion.
She wrote in 1845: "We have quite a charming beach to ourselves."As well as being the first place that she swam in the sea, it was where herchildren learned to swim.
Beaches remain closed
Beaches in Thanet remain closed after a sewage spill. Local MP Laura Sandys says the area's sewage pipes are no longer fit for purpose. She is calling for an urgent meeting with Southern Water and Thanet Council to ensure that everything is being done to correct the situation.
Man who died saving child is named
A man who died while saving a five-year old girl from the water at West Wittering beach in West Sussex on Sunday has been named as 32-year old Plamen Petkova, of Westmoreland Drive, Sutton, Surrey.
You can see more on this story here.
Blue Flags for some
Twenty eight beaches across our region have today been awarded the Blue Flag for safety and cleanliness. Some have gained the flag this year, others have lost it.
Sandbanks in Dorset is officially the best beach in the UK after it became the only site to be awarded the prestigious blue flag award 25 times. So what does it actually mean? Richard Mackleway from Keep Britain Tidy tells us how prestigious the award actually is.
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