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Three die in Cornwall, UK caravan park of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:24:40 GMT

Monday, February 25, 2013

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"Camborne family die in suspected CO poisoning" — BBC News Online, February 23, 2013
"3 die from 'carbon monoxide'" — ITV West Country, February 23, 2013
"Partnership to help foster families stay safe from carbon monoxide poisoning" — Cornwall Council, February 18, 2013

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Two killed, 47 injured in coach crash in Cornwall, England

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:16:58 GMT

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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"Coach crash in Cornwall leaves two dead and 47 injured" — BBC News Online, December 23, 2009
Steven Morris. "Two women killed in Cornwall coach crash" — Guardian.co.uk, December 23, 2009
Alastair Jamieson. "Cornwall coach crash kills two as icy roads cause travel chaos across Britain" — Telegraph.co.uk, December 23, 2009

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Man killed in harbour car crash in Cornwall, England

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:47:49 GMT

Monday, December 21, 2009

A man has been killed after a car accident in Cornwall, England. The collision involved a vehicle driving off a quay in Porthleven, near the town of Helston in the county and into the sea at around 2100 Greenwich Mean Time on Friday, according to reports from members of the public made to the police and the coastguard.

A major rescue operation was launched with contributions from the harbourmaster, the ambulance service, the police, the fire crews, a helicopter and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. After roughly two hours, a harbour crane lifted the vehicle out of the water that it had crashed into. It transpired that the man was the only occupant of the vehicle. It is believed that no other vehicles were involved in the incident. The man was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital, which is situated in Truro, by ambulance. However, on arrival, he was pronounced dead.

Now tributes are being paid to 20-year-old Jamie Hocking after his death. The family of the man have said that he will be "truly missed by all who knew him", describing Jamie with the words "loveable rogue". The family also expressed their thanks to people offering sympathy messages and support from others, as well as the emergency services who assisted at the scene of the accident. Devon and Cornwall Constabulary are now asking any people who know of any information relating to the incident to contact them as soon as possible.

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"Tribute to car plunge death man" — BBC News Online, December 20, 2009
"Driver dies in harbour car plunge in Cornwall" — Mirror.co.uk, December 20, 2009
"Man killed in harbour car plunge in Cornwall" — BBC News Online, December 19, 2009

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Wikinews interviews manager of site 'Lose The Game'

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:09:44 GMT

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Jonty Haywood is responsible for the entire site Lose The Game at losethegame.com; a site dedicated to informing the masses about a game called "The Game" which Haywood says is widely spreading and popular game. Wikinews' Gabriel Pollard talked to Haywood via email while constantly losing The Game.

The rules of The Game are simple and easy enough to remember with only three basic rules. While there are variations of the rules spread across Internet just as The Game itself has spread, Haywood plays by these rules:

Rule 1: You are playing The Game.
Rule 2: Whenever you think about The Game, you lose.
Rule 3: Loss must be announced.

One variation of the rules is including a grace period where a player has a certain amount of time in which to forget about The Game ranging from mere minutes to half an hour. However, Haywood says that a grace period is unnecessary.

Haywood says many people are playing The Game which takes advantage of the White Bear Phenomenon. The Cornwall, United Kingdom-resident has experienced people playing The Game on his worldwide travels, he has even experienced an American announcing loss at a cinema in Bangkok, Thailand.

"When I first went to university in Cambridge, a year after hearing about The Game in Cornwall, many people already knew about The Game, especially people from London."

"The number of active players is certainly in the millions, if not tens of millions," Haywood says, based on the fact that he has had 500,000 unique hits to his website, "50,000 members of the biggest Game Facebook group." Newspaper articles, radio mentions and webcomics featuring The Game are more reasons for the assertions of its popularity Haywood says.

"In my experience The Game spreads among a group of friends, eventually reaching the Internet and makes it to a new group of friends, etc.

"In addition, many people play actively by trying to make lots of other people lose The Game, often by initiating new players."

Even though many people play The Game, its history cannot be accurately retold. Haywood first heard of the game in 2001 and while there are some Internet posts relating to The Game that date back to 2002, one person from London with claims to being the maker of The Game says he made it in 1996 with the "aim of annoying as many people as possible." Haywood says this London-origin story is the only claim that has "any kind of evidence". But he does say that he prefers to think that someone "discovered" The Game, and not invented it. "It’s always been there, just waiting for someone to realise that they are playing, and hence lose."

Despite running a popular site about The Game - which has something "big" coming up and will be announced in the next few weeks - Haywood himself gets annoyed and irritated at The Game "all the time" and his losses range anywhere from days at a time to mere hours in between losses depending on the social situation. The Game is still fun to play however, he says, because of the distress you can cause on other people. "Although you can’t be aware that you are winning The Game, it is still fun when your friends lose before you, or more than you. Even more fun is when they lose because of something you previously set-up, or an association you tried to make them make.

"I think it’s a much more interesting game than it may first appear. It’s also very abstract and a little thought-provoking, and it’s good to see lots of young people enjoying it."

And for those who wish to lose less often, Haywood has some "strategies". "One involves trying to feel very annoyed after losing, with the hope that you will subconsciously learn not to lose like this. The other is to hit yourself when you lose, with a similar purpose," he says. "Unfortunately, almost every strategy we have tried so far has backfired spectacularly."

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500 million US dollars worth of treasure found off coast of Cornwall UK

Sat, 19 May 2007 06:30:31 GMT

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Map of Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Reports say that a team of treasure hunters from the United States has recovered over 500 million U.S. dollars (£253m) worth of gold and silver coins off the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom in what is being called the biggest treasure find ever, but the exact location of the treasure has not been named because of security and legal concerns. The operation is codenamed the Black Swan Project.

Odyssey Marine Exploration made the discovery and the treasure is believed to be from a 17th century shipwreck located some 40 miles off the Cornish coast. There have reportedly been hundreds of thousands of the silver coins and at least 200 gold coins found in the wreckage, some in "near mint condition." All the coins are being examined in the U.S. by experts.

"The gold coins are almost all dazzling mint state specimens," said one of the founders of Odyssey Marine Exploration, Greg Stemm.

The reports came out when Doctor Lane Brunner, who is located in the U.S. and is an expert on coins, said that the team had to report the discovery to a judge in the fall of 2006 before the finds could be salvaged.

"They told a judge at that point that they had found the wreck of a seventeenth-century merchant ship in the Atlantic Ocean, just outside the English Channel - about 40 miles off Land's End. So all we can do is add two and two together. It would seem logical given the timing and everything that could be the site," said Brunner.

Reports suggest that the shipwreck is that of the Merchant Royal which is said to have sunk in 1641 near the Isles of Scilly.

"We have treated this site with kid gloves and the archaeological work done by our team out there is unsurpassed. We are thoroughly documenting and recording the site, which we believe will have immense historical significance," added Stemm.

Sources[edit]

"Record wreck 'found off Cornwall'" — BBC News, May 19, 2007
Mitch Stacy. "Shipwreck Yields Estimated $500M Haul" — Guardian Unlimited, May 18, 2007

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Camel Rock Festival held in Scilly

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:17:15 GMT

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

The August Bank Holiday weekend, as usual, played host to many festivals and musical events around the UK, not least the Camel Rock Festival held at Porthcressa on the Isles of Scilly. But will it be the last?

Local bands included those formed at the Five Islands' School, the members of the Steamband under the temporary name Senile Shambles and the rhythm and blues band, Roadrunner. Bands imported from mainland England included Murdoch, from Manchester.

The event, deemed 'unique' in the local press, raises money for local musical projects on the islands. It's future is, as always, in doubt due to the amount of work for organisers and volunteers, especially for the clean-up operation. Organiser Paul Lewis hopes that the event will return next year as long as there are still volunteers.

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Camel Rock - official web site

Sources[edit]

This Is Cornwall. "More Than Just Music At Camel Rock Event" — This Is Cornwall, September 01, 2005

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Live 8 concerts around the world to "End Poverty Now"

Sun, 03 Jul 2005 10:52:07 GMT

Saturday, July 2, 2005

The Live 8 Concert in Rome, Italy

Massive music concerts took place around the planet under the Live 8 banner in an effort to put pressure on the leaders of the eight richest countries in the world to end global poverty.

All concerts were timed to take place between noon and 10pm local time, with over a million people expected to attend concerts in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the US, Canada, South Africa and Russia. The events were broadcast to a potential audience of five and a half billion people world-wide.

The largest concert was in the US in Philadelphia where, over the course of 7 hours, hundreds of thousands of people gathered to watch Stevie Wonder, Kanye West, Destiny's Child, Dave Matthews Band, and Black Eyed Peas among others. Philadelphia native Will Smith both performed and was the opening presenter. Peak attendance, the maximum amount of people believed to be watching Live 8 on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at a given time, is estimated to have been between 600,000 and 800,000.

In Hyde Park in London, 205,000 people watched acts including Elton John, Madonna, Coldplay, Robbie Williams and Pink Floyd. The concert was opened by Sir Paul McCartney and U2 playing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - the first time the song has ever been performed live by a Beatle. It ended at 11.58pm with all of the acts coming on stage to sing one last time.

Bill Gates - founder of Microsoft and the richest man in the world (owning $46.5 billion) - appeared on the London stage to discuss the challenges facing the world, before introducing Dido. Later, Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the UN addressed the audience, thanking them for their support.

However, the first concert to open - in Japan - only drew 10,000 spectators, disappointing many.

The concerts follow on 20 years after the Live Aid concert organised by Bob Geldof, which was created to raise money for famine victims in Ethopia.

By contrast, the aim of Live 8 - also organised by Geldof - is not fund-raising but instead to apply pressure to the leaders of the G8 to end world poverty, which claims the lives of 50,000 every day.

The Live 8 organisers are urging the G8 to:

Double the aid sent to the world's poorest countries,
Fully cancel their debts,
Change the trade laws so that they can build their own future.

The Finance Ministers of the G8 agreed a plan last month to cancel the debt of 18 of the poorest countries to the IMF, the World Bank and the African Development Fund, but are requiring other countries to end political and financial corruption before they become elegible for debt relief.

On Thursday the President of the United States, George W. Bush, announced that the US will double US aid to Africa by 2010 - increasing to $8.6 billion a year. Bob Geldof welcomed the news, saying "This is the first time we have heard this sort of language.

"This is very, very positive indeed."

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2 Related news
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London, United Kingdom[edit]

Crowd: 205,000

Berlin, Germany[edit]

Crowds at Tiergarten, Berlin

Crowd: 100,000

Philadelphia, United States[edit]

Crowd: 800,000 - 1,000,000

Paris, France[edit]

Crowd: 200,000

Rome, Italy[edit]

With temperatures in the 30s, fans went through a lot of water at the Live 8 concert in Rome

Crowd: 100,000

Several Italian bands really got the crowd going, but foreign bands such as Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were poorly received by the crowd.

Moscow, Russia[edit]

Crowd: 200,000

Barrie, Canada[edit]

Crowd: 35,000

Johannesburg, South Africa[edit]

Crowd: 40,000

Tokyo, Japan[edit]

Crowd: 10,000

In Cornwall[edit]

Crowd: 5,000

This article features first-hand journalism by Wikinews members. See the collaboration page for more details.

This was all Afrcan musicians plus Dido, guesting with Senegalese superstar Youssou N'Dour.

The Eden centre turned out to be an excellent site for TV or rather a web stream.

WOMAD was involved so there may be a record.

There was a weblink to South Africa and a live message from Nelson Mandela.

Archived video

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/broadband/mediawrapper/consoles/live8?redirect=console.shtml&nbram=1&bbram=1

Sources[edit]

"Live 8 global concerts under way" — BBC News Online, July 2, 2005
"Millions gather for Live 8" — CNN, July 2, 2005

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Philadelphia, United States[edit]

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	We have seen a big increase in the number of carbon monoxide incidents in Cornwall over recent years
—Mark Blatchford, CFRS Group Manager

	I was shaken, really shaken. I think we all were. It was horrific.
—Ann Ellis