Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
something always smells fishy when these piers set on fire.
What, like a cigarette butt?
Weston-Super-Mare pier burns down, gets rebuilt
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What, like a cigarette butt?
I live 8 miles away; can't see anything.
Kanda
Diving wanker
Not to be facetious, but i wouldn't swim in that muck regardless. That water is estuary mud and filth.Shame about the Pier, but it's not just the Pier that'll be affected. Would imagine it's going to be a bit dangerous to swim around there for a while
Well I can see weston from my house, just no smoke. Perhaps they bought it under control.Try going outside and looking in the right direction?
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Yeah, pretty much like Southend's. After the fire in 1976 you couldn't swim in the sea for weeks after in case you got whacked by a floorboard from the Pier
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Latest pictures from BBC showed it pretty much burnt to a crisp and not much smoke
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
How sad, another pier gone.
Shame about the Pier, but it's not just the Pier that'll be affected. Would imagine it's going to be a bit dangerous to swim around there for a while
It's always been dangerous to swim in the sea at Weston!
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
According to the radio report it basically disappeared in just an hour! 
Geri
wasn't born to follow
According to the radio report it basically disappeared in just an hour!
Pretty much, I was watching more or less from start to finish.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
something always smells fishy when these piers set on fire.
lols etc.
Damn shame, I love a nice pier even more than I love a good fire.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
That quick??!! Thanks fuck it wasn't open at the time!!
but if people had to jump, would they have just landed in mud?
untethered
For industry & decency
Something doesn't quite add up here in the official story.
The nearest fire station is only 1.2 miles away, yet the fire engines took 45 minutes to arrive. This seems to contradict the chief fire officer's account that they were there within "two shakes" of the original 999 call.
Even more mysterious is the fact that the police, fire brigade and coastguard were taking part in an emergency simulation exercise for just this kind of event when the tragedy occurred.
Now it may be that the whole thing was an inside job, planned down to the last detail to look "authentic". More likely, perhaps, that the police uncovered the plot during the planning stages and stood back to let it happen.
Either way, there's a lot more to this than meets the eye.
We have a right to know the truth.
The nearest fire station is only 1.2 miles away, yet the fire engines took 45 minutes to arrive. This seems to contradict the chief fire officer's account that they were there within "two shakes" of the original 999 call.
Even more mysterious is the fact that the police, fire brigade and coastguard were taking part in an emergency simulation exercise for just this kind of event when the tragedy occurred.
Now it may be that the whole thing was an inside job, planned down to the last detail to look "authentic". More likely, perhaps, that the police uncovered the plot during the planning stages and stood back to let it happen.
Either way, there's a lot more to this than meets the eye.
We have a right to know the truth.
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really sad this. I had no idea the tropicana was closed too! I have fond memories of both
It hasn't been there for donkey's years. I took my son a few years ago, with the intention of going there, it had gone.
Remember being laughed at by my posh classmates for raving about going to 'Weston Supermare' one summer.
Who says it took 45 minutes to arrive? There's no way it would take that long.
It hasn't been there for donkey's years. I took my son a few years ago, with the intention of going there, it had gone.
Remember being laughed at by my posh classmates for raving about going to 'Weston Supermare' one summer.
Not to be tactless but it is a shithole. I'm not happy about great big burning things (unless they contain Edward Woodward), but the Pier is a joke, though popular.
doctor_strange
Your New Master
Quickest conspiracy theory ever?
doctor_strange
Your New Master
Sign me up as a WSM Troofer!
untethered
For industry & decency
You'll be able to get them for 5p now.
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
They have just said on the radio that deep fat fryers were in the area where they think the fire started.
Where in the pier doesn't have a deep fat fryer. That place has more grease and chip fat per square inch than the entirety of Glasgow.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
The tropicana has only been shut down for about 7-8 years. I was the first perosn in weston in there. Our primary school was practically opposite it and they let us in for asplash about pre-official opening. I was changed second then knocked over danny murphy just before he reachd the water. Victory was mine.
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
Are people eating fish and chips that early in the morning?
Maybe one had been left on over night.
