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With 9,000 GRP boats abandoned in Europe each year, finding disposal solutions isn t easy. Could new technologies be the answer? Nic Compton finds out
The high cost of disposal often means it is cheaper to abandon GRP boats. Credit: Alamy
It’s the elephant in the cabin, the big question that’s been looming for decades: ‘What do we do with old GRP boats?’
Anyone who has been for a beach walk in popular boating areas in the UK can’t help but have noticed the growing number of abandoned boats accumulating on the foreshore or collecting moss up some leafy creek.
Marcus Piper, 27, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Basildon Crown Court yesterday. Piper had committed robberies, an attempted robbery and an aggravated burglary over the course of three months in 2020. His arrest followed the robbery of a taxi driver on Colchester Road in Southend on August 22. Another robbery took place on September 5 and an attempted robbery the day after on Palmerston Road in Westcliff. On September 12 he had used a knife to intimidate an employee at Station News, Shoebury, threatening to cut [his] throat and stab the victim. He then demanded money from the till and took three packets of cigars from behind the counter.
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Carried Away, written and directed by Tom Huckabee, is a wonderful indie comedy drama that’s essentially about a family seemingly breaking apart around the holidays. Sweet but never saccharine and, at times, goddamn hilarious, it’s the kind of movie that makes a bad day seem not that bad at all. You may go into it not expecting much (if you’ve seen one indie comedy drama you’ve seen them all), but
Carried Away will, I think, exceed your expectations by a mile and more.
Carried Away stars Gabriel Horn as Ed Franklin, a young actor who flies from Los Angeles to his family home in Texas for the holidays. Ed doesn’t seem to fit in with his family, especially his sternish father Rex (Mark Walters) and his brothers Steve (Bryan Massey) and, to a lesser extent, Davy (Tyler Corie). Steve is sick with cancer but is also bit of a belligerent jerk, and Davy has serious legal issues (he got caught with weed and might go to jail). The only pers