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A GRIEVING father told an inquest yesterday how he was forced to make a "life and death" decision over which of his children to save when a family canoe trip turned to tragedy. Television presenter Ian Clayton's nine-year-old daughter Billie died after their canoe capsized, throwing them into fast-flowing water, along with Billie's twin brother Edward.

A grieving father told yesterday how he was forced to make a 'life and death' decision over which of his children to save when a family canoe trip turned to tragedy. TV presenter Ian Clayton's daughter Billie, nine, died after their canoe capsized, throwing them into fast-flowing water, along with Billie's twin brother Edward. Yesterday Mr Clayton, 48, spoke through tears as he told how he had been told by his son to save Billie first. He desperately tried to lift the canoe clear but couldn't see Billie and was only able to grab Edward. Buoyed by their lifejackets, Mr...

45-Foot Ancient Canoe Stuck In The Muck Of Weedon Island Tampa Bay Online updated 3:10 p.m. CT, Mon., May. 5, 2008 By KEITH MORELLI of The Tampa Tribune ST. PETERSBURG - Stuck somewhere in the muck of Weedon Island is a significant piece of history. A 45-foot canoe, buried for more than a thousand years and used by a long-dead culture of Native Americans, worked its way to the surface, and now authorities are trying to figure out how best to preserve it. The vessel is carved out of a single pine tree, and archaeologists say it was used to...

SENATE BILL 255-FN-A "requiring non-motorized vessels to display conservation decals issued by the fish and game department." SPONSORS: Sen. Barnes, Dist 17; Sen. Gallus, Dist 1; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20 NH Senate Wildlife, Fish and Game Committee: Next/Last Hearing: WILDLIFE, FISH AND GAME     3/14/2007 1:00:00 PM     LOB 103 http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/ns/billstatus/commdetails.asp?txtcommcode=S35 Text of the bill: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/SB0255.html Bill Sponsors: Barnes (Republican) Gallus (Republican) D'Allesandro (Democrat) Contact information for representatives. NH State House:http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/default.html NH State Senate:http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/

'Today' continued this morning its campaign of promoting the Baker-Hamilton recommendations. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell left little doubt as to her inclinations with this mini-editorial in the guise of a report:"Americans might well be asking today after all the high-profile summits this week on two continents 'is the administration any closer now to an exit strategy for Iraq?'"Noting that "time is running out and options limited," Mitchell wanted to know whether President Bush is "ready to change policy before events overtake him?" She then launched into a description of the policy changes to be proposed by the Baker-Hamilton...

Ancient Canoe Found by Wichita State University Professor on Belize Research Dig WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- An ancient canoe -- more than likely the oldest canoe ever uncovered in Mesoamerica -- was discovered this summer in a cliff-top cave in Belize by an excavation team being led by Wichita State University archaeologist Keith Prufer. Prufer estimates that the canoe very likely dates to 200 to 800 AD, based on previous findings in the area. Carbon testing is currently being wrapped up to confirm that the canoe is indeed the oldest found in Mesoamerica, the geographical region from...

Archaeologists working on a gas pipeline near Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire have unearthed what they believe to be a 3,400-year-old canoe. Work has stopped on a section of the pipeline near St Botolphs to allow the Bronze Age oak relic to be recovered. It is the first such discovery in Wales and only 150 exist across Europe. Senior archaeologist Neil Fairburn said: "You could never have expected to find anything like this in this small wetland area, it's just awesome." The team has also found evidence of a small settlement, a small amount of property and other items, such as...

Spray, delay, and walk away." "Grooming Guru" Kyan Douglas can be overheard dishing this advice to the (formerly) clueless men on TV's makeover show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." He knows a little cologne goes a long way. Mike Church wishes his directions were more widely heeded. "People my age, they'll drench it on," the 19-year-old Express Men employee says recently during his shift at Mishawaka's University Park Mall. "It'll just give you a headache." Church doesn't let the poor choices of his peers prevent him from doing it right. He and all three of his brothers, ages 14,...

On Oct. 14, Michelle Kosinski, an intrepid new NBC News correspondent who made her name this summer chasing Natalee Holloway’s ghost through Aruba, found herself up a creek without a paddle in the middle of the Today show. Only, she had a paddle. What she didn’t have was a creek. In what would have been a beautifully choreographed segment, Ms. Kosinski was reporting live about flooding in Wayne, N.J., in a canoe that was floating down a submerged suburban thoroughfare. “Eight days of rain, and some neighborhoods don’t even look like neighborhoods anymore,” she told Today viewers at the top...

Stephen DeFerrari, a Dedham native whose sister-in-law lives in Hanover, and his wife, Pam, escaped from their New Orleans home yesterday, brandishing a shotgun, in a canoe with their seven cats. Stephen spoke to the Herald last night after they arrived at a Baton Rouge hotel.

Aussies find bronze age canoe January 14, 2005 AUSTRALIAN archaeologists have unearthed one of the oldest log canoes ever found in South-East Asia. A team from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra and conservators from the National Museum of Australia excavated a 2.5m section of the boat last month at Dong Xa, about 50 kilometres southeast of the capital Hanoi. The boat was used for burial and contained the body of an adult. It would have been about 10m long and was believed to have been used in the Red River delta area around 100BC by a people known...

OLD TOWN — Thousands of brass tacks, hammered by hand, scatter light across the glossy, cedar-planked hull of a 17-foot canoe, cradled on sawhorses in the Old Town Canoe Co. wood shop. That's the way they've built canoes here for a century. Upstairs, workers install seats in 12-foot kayaks made from PolyLink3, a patented composite that sandwiches flotation foam between two layers of strong plastic. That's how modern boats are made. The past and future intermingle here at Old Town Canoe, the country's largest canoe and kayak maker. This summer has been a time to reflect on that heritage, as...

Cuban President Fidel Castro, left, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wave to a crowd while touring Canaima National Park in eastern Venezuela in a canoe in this Aug. 12, 2001 file photo. Chavez, the former army paratrooper who polarized Venezuela with his strongarm rule and whose friendship with Cuba and Iraq irritated the United States, resigned under military pressure Friday, April 12, 2002 after a massive opposition demonstration ended in a bloodbath. (AP Photo/HO, Miraflores Presidential Palace, Egilda Gomez)