Icelandic trawler pulls up WW2 mine Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:31:34 +0000 An Icelandic trawler yesterday came in for a surprise when it landed an active mine among its fishy catch.
The crew of the trawler, Skinney, pulled up the explosive device and subsequently called on Coastguard bomb disposal experts. They were fishing south of Snaefellsjokull glacier on the Snaefellsnes peninsula at the time.
The bomb was a British [...]
More vintage bubbly fished from shipwreck Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:06:49 +0000 Divers have started an operation to salvage dozens of bottles of vintage champagne from a shipwreck off the coast of Finland. The bubbly, which was first discovered in a sunken vessel off the semi-autonomous maritime province of the Aland Islands in July, is thought to be the oldest in the world, having sat on the [...]
Independent Icelandic MP joins Left Greens Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:05:50 +0000 Icelandic MP Thrainn Bertelsson yesterday joined the ranks of the Left Green Movement – the smaller of the country’s two coalition parties in government.
It is not possible for independent candidates to stand for election in Iceland, but Bertelsson was elected for the Citizens’ Movement and subsequently left the party, thus becoming an independent Member of [...]
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