Corfu Blues and Global Views

Music, Literature, the Visual Arts, Landscape, Current Affairs, Dorset, Greece. Global scope. RECENT BOOKS: WORDS ON THE TABLE (207 Poems), READING THE SIGNS (111 Poems), THIS SPINNING WORLD (43 stories). See Amazon author page for more. ResearchGate profile: www.researchgate.net/profile/Jim_Potts2 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrHighway49/videos

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Landslip and Loss of Life at Burton Bradstock

Just got back from the Dorset coast to see news of this horrifying landslip on the 4pm news.

BBC

Sky News

Telegraph

Update:

Tragic outcome (Telegraph)

BBC News

Sky News

Victim named (Dorset Echo)

More general concerns (BBC)

Rain the cause

Warnings in place, but some restrictions lifted

Funeral of victim (BBC)

Another rockfall, near Charmouth

WARNING over ignored signs (BBC)

Update: Monmouth Beach closed

Jim at 16:16:00

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Jim Potts

Jim: Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.

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Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Landslip and Loss of Life at Burton Bradstock

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