Timber washes up on Kent coast
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- ITN
Timber washes up on Kent coast
Tonnes of timber from a Russian cargo ship has started washing up on the Kent coast. Large amounts of the wood has been seen on the shore around Ramsgate and Margate. The ship Sinegorsk issued an alert in rough seas at 8.15am on Monday after it lost up to 1,500 tonnes of its sawn timber load around 14 miles off the coast of Newhaven, East Sussex. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has been monitoring the timber as it moved in a north easterly direction towards the Dover Strait. Dover Coastguard said it began to receive reports of timber coming ashore on the Kent coast in the early hours of this morning. A spokesman said: "It is starting to come ashore now between Pegwell Bay and Ramsgate and up towards Margate." He added: "We have just received a report from a fisherman a mile east of Broadstairs to say there's a massive amount of it there. He said he'd never seen so much wood in his life. "Our concern is that people may try to take the wood. If they wade in to recover it they are putting themselves in real danger as the sea is so rough. "The legality of what they are doing also needs to be questioned. They must realise it is someone else's property."
ITN | January 22, 2009
