Then on May 1, he received a Facebook message. And then another one.
And they kept coming.
“I don’t know how many people I’ve been tagged by, even getting messages from people who were my mates six or seven years ago,” Shields said, laughing. “And they were all asking the same question. ‘Hey, is this you?’ And I said, ‘Yes, yes it is!’”
The float had been found, and the person who found it was trying to get it back to its rightful owner.
But the buoy didn t wash up just up the coast from Wanchese, the homeport of the 46-foot Hard Way, which long-line fishes for tuna and other fish in the warm waters of the Gulf Stream off North Carolina s Outer Banks.
RESIDENTS said work to repair disgusting and dangerous potholes in a busy Southampton road is well overdue . A number of residents living in Paynes Road, in Freemantle, said the road surface has deteriorated over the past months. It comes as work to repair the road is expected to be carried out over the next few months, it has been revealed. Local resident Sarah Shah, 53, account manager, said: It is well overdue. Look at the potholes, they are disgusting. I think they are dangerous for everyone. You can trip and fall. In my opinion they should have more restrictions on traffic because traffic is not helping it at all, there s lots of heavy lorries.
By Tom Orde Crime and court reporter Extremely worrying Police raid ANOTHER cannabis factory
POLICE have seized 146 plants in a raid on a Southampton “cannabis factory”. Officers swooped to a property in Romsey Road during a drug bust. Supported by engineers from SSE, they seized a total of 146 plants - believed to be cannabis. A 25-year-old man from the city was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class B drugs. He was questioned however has since been released on bail following the raid on Tuesday morning. Over recent weeks police have carried out a number of operations targeting ‘cannabis factories’ in the city.
THE number of new Universal Credit claimants soared in the early months of the pandemic – and many continued to need financial support for at least six months. Across the Southampton (SO) postcode area, there were 12,635 new Universal Credit claimants in April 2020 and a further 14,039 in May 2020. This compared to respective figures of 1,592 and 1,547 from April and May 2019. The analysis of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data by the BBC Shared Data Unit shows there were eight-fold and nine-fold year-on-year increases for the months of April and May. Across the UK there was a seven-fold rise. In SO postcodes, 54 per cent of the new April 2020 claimants and 45 per cent of the new May 2020 claimants were still receiving Universal Credit support six months on.
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