bejesus was a tad warm down my way today

[gregers]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-28571431

talk about being bloody busy,60 odd firefighters,2 main lifeboats plus others boats etc.
total bedlam roads closed etc.
we went down later to have a looksie such a shame.

still ill bet there be picking up money dropped from the arcade  onto the beach for yonks.
i know someone who works on it and all she got was her phone had to leave her bag,and cannot get it to get into her house.

[insanitybeard]

It's always a shame to see historical buildings like that go up in smoke, the pier at Weston Super Mare in my part of the world met a similar end a few years back, though I think in the case of that one it was totally destroyed, at least not all the buildings have been lost at Eastbourne.

[Mirez]

Is the shell of the Weston pier still there? They hadn't removed it last time I went?

[insanitybeard]

As far as I can tell (not that I've ever set foot on it) the one that suffered the fire in Weston was completely rebuilt and reopened in 2010, though there are a couple of other piers in the town apparently.