Whale in River Thames, London

[Jaffa Cake]

While all these charity workers were busy racing against time to save the whale, traffic police in London saw the "Marine Resuce" vehicles had been parked longer than there ticket said and slapped them with £300 parking fines!

Worrying about a whale when they should have been worrying about sharks...

Still, at least the council saw sense and waived the fine.

 

[Loge]

Still, at least the council saw sense and waived the fine.

Yes, a whale in central London, and then an even more unusual event happens!

 

[Jaffa Cake]

And in more whale-related news, the results of the post-mortem are in. Turns out it was a combination of dehydration, muscle damage and kidney failure that did for it.

And to answer a question a little further up the thread, the report says that the whale's skeleton has been given to the Natural History Museum and will be made available for scientific research. Hopefully, what we learn from this whale will come in handy should another find itself in similar straits.

 

[AndyR]

Ahh sorry I didn't know the council had waived the fines as could only find the one article. Thats good then, fair play.

 

[mpw]

Ahh sorry I didn't know the council had waived the fines as could only find the one article. Thats good then, fair play.

It was in the article that you linked to.

 

[AndyR]

It was in the article that you linked to.

Whoops that'll teach me to re-read articles! I originally read it a good few days ago when it just came out, then when I saw this thread thought I'd just post the link direct from copying it out my history. Its been updated since and didn't realise so having just re-read it I can see I was a muppet!

Oh well... Everyone has brain farts once in a while..