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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired September 03, 2003 - 05:46 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Let's get another look at the headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Tony Campion is live in London.
And what are the front pages looking like this morning -- Tony?
TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, I thought I'd start out this, what day is it, it was Wednesday, with a quick look at a story on the front page of one of the left wing broad sheets. Now this is -- this is kind of interesting, and I think it's going to be good news for people living in James River, Virginia.
What they are saying is that there is a rusting, toxic ghost fleet on its way to the U.K. So the story is there are 13 ships, they have been anchored in the James River for about 15 years. A lot of them got oil in, there is asbestos, there are other ones with (ph) nasty chemicals around and they just don't have the facilities to deal with them properly in Virginia.
So a British company is actually being paid $17 million. And the British company is going to take these boats, they are going to bring them across the Atlantic and they are going to dismantle them in Teesside, which is one of the big shipbuilding centers here in the U.K.
But the big problem is, these boats are falling apart. I mean the bottoms are rusting, they are leaking oil left, right and center. One or two salvage experts have been questioning whether or not they can actually make it 15 miles out into the sea, let alone across the Atlanta -- Atlantic. So it's all a little bit uncertain, but interesting, anyway, and certainly good news for those people, I'm guessing, in James River. They've got to be pretty glad to see the back of these. Thirteen ships rusting for all that time.
WHITFIELD: Well, Tony, I understand something else that folks might be embracing, Europeans might really be embracing, some lovely pinups you have got now.
CAMPION: Yes. Now this is an odd one. Based on a true story, as well. And there is actually a film that had its premiere in London's West End last night and it's called "Calendar Girls." Now this is the front page of the "Daily Telegraph." This is a right wing broad sheet in the U.K. And generally speaking, they tend to try and get a calendar girl somewhere in the first few pages. Kind of upper class, posh, 18-year-old girl, something like that.
Now what we have here is a calendar girl of a different generation, so we gently say. She first undressed for the cameras 30 years ago, Helen Mirren, and very well known here as a good actress, actually, very good actress. And she's in this film "Calendar Girls," which is based on the true story of a bunch of women's institute's members in Yorkshire who in 1999 decided that they would strip and pose for a calendar after one of their husbands died of leukemia. The idea was to raise money for charity. And indeed the premiere last night was again an attempt to raise cash. It was a charity premiere.
So that's kind of a film to look out for, actually. I don't think you've got it on that side of the Atlantic just yet, but it's not going to be too long coming, I'm sure.
WHITFIELD: I'm sure it won't take long at all. Thanks a lot, Tony, appreciate it.
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Aired September 3, 2003 - 05:46 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Let's get another look at the headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Tony Campion is live in London.
And what are the front pages looking like this morning -- Tony?
TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, I thought I'd start out this, what day is it, it was Wednesday, with a quick look at a story on the front page of one of the left wing broad sheets. Now this is -- this is kind of interesting, and I think it's going to be good news for people living in James River, Virginia.
What they are saying is that there is a rusting, toxic ghost fleet on its way to the U.K. So the story is there are 13 ships, they have been anchored in the James River for about 15 years. A lot of them got oil in, there is asbestos, there are other ones with (ph) nasty chemicals around and they just don't have the facilities to deal with them properly in Virginia.
So a British company is actually being paid $17 million. And the British company is going to take these boats, they are going to bring them across the Atlantic and they are going to dismantle them in Teesside, which is one of the big shipbuilding centers here in the U.K.
But the big problem is, these boats are falling apart. I mean the bottoms are rusting, they are leaking oil left, right and center. One or two salvage experts have been questioning whether or not they can actually make it 15 miles out into the sea, let alone across the Atlanta -- Atlantic. So it's all a little bit uncertain, but interesting, anyway, and certainly good news for those people, I'm guessing, in James River. They've got to be pretty glad to see the back of these. Thirteen ships rusting for all that time.
WHITFIELD: Well, Tony, I understand something else that folks might be embracing, Europeans might really be embracing, some lovely pinups you have got now.
CAMPION: Yes. Now this is an odd one. Based on a true story, as well. And there is actually a film that had its premiere in London's West End last night and it's called "Calendar Girls." Now this is the front page of the "Daily Telegraph." This is a right wing broad sheet in the U.K. And generally speaking, they tend to try and get a calendar girl somewhere in the first few pages. Kind of upper class, posh, 18-year-old girl, something like that.
Now what we have here is a calendar girl of a different generation, so we gently say. She first undressed for the cameras 30 years ago, Helen Mirren, and very well known here as a good actress, actually, very good actress. And she's in this film "Calendar Girls," which is based on the true story of a bunch of women's institute's members in Yorkshire who in 1999 decided that they would strip and pose for a calendar after one of their husbands died of leukemia. The idea was to raise money for charity. And indeed the premiere last night was again an attempt to raise cash. It was a charity premiere.
So that's kind of a film to look out for, actually. I don't think you've got it on that side of the Atlantic just yet, but it's not going to be too long coming, I'm sure.
WHITFIELD: I'm sure it won't take long at all. Thanks a lot, Tony, appreciate it.
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