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Sheerness in Kent seems like any other seaside town but, unbeknown to many, it is just 1.5miles away from a shipwreck that is ...
Fresh concerns the UK's 'doomsday ship' could blow up were sparked after a cargo ship was recently spotted sailing perilously close to the exclusion zone ...
A 28-mile path is now open after being first proposed more than five years ago - but is not as continuous as first hoped. The route, which covers 80% of the Isle of Sheppey’s coastal trails, was ...
Marine Town and Mile Town in Sheerness have both been added and are described as deteriorating and in a medium state of vulnerability. The two sites are among 50 conversation areas in the borough.
A 'doomsday wreck' full of explosives from World War II could be edging closer to collapse, according to a new survey. The SS Richard Montgomery, used by the US for carrying cargo of munitions during ...
A mile-long wall could keep the rising ocean out of this Jersey Shore town. But residents don’t want it. Updated ... That’s more than half the properties in the nearly 1.5-square-mile town.
The two-mile-long Town of Pines, with 800 residents in 333 homes tucked between Beverly Shores and Michigan City, is in many ways an orphan town. “The Pines is a no-man’s land. It is a tiny ...
EXCLUSIVE: Sheerness locals have rebuffed claims that it's one of the worst and most dangerous places to live - and that the town holds on to a rare community spirit long lost in Britain.
But the residents of Sheerness believe the isolated seaside town is in need of the £20 million it has been awarded. Pauline Luddington, 84, who has lived in Sheerness her whole life, says: “It ...
The WWII-era SS Richard Montgomery sits just over a mile from shore – and locals fear that its 1,400 tonnes of potent explosives could go off at any time. Jon Excell investigates.