A Boston train driver is being hailed as a hero after managing to avoid hitting a woman who had fallen on the tracks when alerted by passengers on the station platform. Orange Line operator Charice Lewis saw the passengers at the platform waving their arms in the hope of getting her to stop, and at the same time she received a radio warning to pull the emergency brakes. "I saw the people, the people were waving. That's normal after a game," she said. "The people were waving, but they were waving a little bit too much and they were really, really close to the yellow line, which they are not supposed to be. So that's obviously telling me 'slow your train down, slow your train down'.
A Boston train driver is being hailed as a hero after managing to avoid hitting a woman who had fallen on the tracks when alerted by passengers on the station platform.
Orange Line operator Charice Lewis saw the passengers at the platform waving their arms in the hope of getting her to stop, and at the same time she received a radio warning to pull the emergency brakes.
"I saw the people, the people were waving. That's normal after a game," she said. "The people were waving, but they were waving a little bit too much and they were really, really close to the yellow line, which they are not supposed to be. So that's obviously telling me 'slow your train down, slow your train down'.
The unemployment rate may top 10 percent, but there is an opening at the University of California, Santa Cruz for a Deadhead. The library is advertising for an archivist to handle the library's Grateful Dead collection.
A woman who was banned from making loud noises during sex has lost an appeal against her conviction.Caroline and Steve Cartwright's love-making was described as "murder" and "unnatural" at Newcastle Crown Court. Neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise. Mrs Cartwright, 48, from Washington on Wearside, lost the appeal against a conviction for breaching a noise abatement notice. She argued she had a right to "respect for her private and family life" under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.
A woman who was banned from making loud noises during sex has lost an appeal against her conviction.
Caroline and Steve Cartwright's love-making was described as "murder" and "unnatural" at Newcastle Crown Court.
Neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise.
Mrs Cartwright, 48, from Washington on Wearside, lost the appeal against a conviction for breaching a noise abatement notice.
She argued she had a right to "respect for her private and family life" under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.
A blackened bottle of beer found in the wreck of the Hindenburg zeppelin is expected to fetch thousands of pounds at auction.The bottle was found by a fire-fighter cleaning up the American airfield where the German airship exploded in 1937. The bottle will be the most expensive ever bought if it meets its estimated price of £5,000 ($8,337) on Saturday.
A blackened bottle of beer found in the wreck of the Hindenburg zeppelin is expected to fetch thousands of pounds at auction.
The bottle was found by a fire-fighter cleaning up the American airfield where the German airship exploded in 1937.
The bottle will be the most expensive ever bought if it meets its estimated price of £5,000 ($8,337) on Saturday.
Graham Nearn, who has died aged 76, was one of the most imaginative and innovative motoring entrepreneurs of the postwar era, and the man who almost single- handedly kept alive the iconic Lotus Seven sports car design. The brainchild of the Lotus founder Colin Chapman, whose Formula One cars were a dominant force in grand prix racing during the 1960s, the Lotus Seven was designed to offer state-of-the-art racing technology to enthusiasts on a budget. Bought in kit form for about £500, its Ford 1,172cc engine, could deliver up to 75bhp, giving impressive acceleration up to 80mph in a car that weighed only 500kg. But when Chapman decided to develop a more up-market image for the Lotus range, Nearn stepped in to ensure that the spindly little sports car survived and thrived.
