Music Tourism a money spinner for Britain – brought in £3.1bn last year

Music Tourism is turning out to be a money spinner for Britain because, since 2011, music tourism has grown by 39%. An estimated 9.5 million people had undertaken long journeys to come to events last year from across the UK and abroad and they generated £3.1bn.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 18 July 2015.

There has been a significant increase in the number of music fans who are travelling from overseas to see their favorite bands perform live at Britain's festivals and concerts. This is helping to provide a major boost to the economy.
More than half a million of the music lovers were from other countries and, each one of them has handed businesses worth about £750 to Brittan. Festivals like the Glastonbury festival, the Bestival on the Isle of Wight and Suffolk's Latitude Festival are big draws.
The arrival of tourists help taxis, shops, restaurants and everyone else - the whole economy benefits from these festivals.
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#studlandbay #dorset #eelgrass #seahorses The decision by environment ministry Defra on not agreeing on the establishment of marine conservation zones in Dorset’s Studland Bay and around the Isle of Wight has come as a shock to environmentalists as reported in dailymail.co.uk of dated 31 January 2015. It seems the plans were shelved to enable yachtsmen to moor their boats there. As officials have indicated, establishing marine conservation zones in Dorset’s Studland Bay and around the Isle of Wight would lead to major implications for sailors, including restrictions on where they could anchor. The decision has been condemned by campaigners because, as explained by Joan Edwards, of The Wildlife Trusts, the anchors break the fragile eelgrass, which is the habitat of many underwater species. Incidentally, Studland Bay is located two miles from Sandbanks which is Britain’s most expensive strip of coastal real estate. The worst part is that this is also the only place in the UK where both native seahorse species – the spiny seahorse and the short-snouted seahorse – are known to breed. Hence, their existence would be at stake. Their numbers have fallen dramatically in recent years. As per a survey carried out in 2009, there were only 40 spiny and two short-snouted seahorses in the bay. However, but last year the researchers could find a single juvenile male swimming there. In addition, the eelgrass which grows in the bay is home to endangered undulate rays, native British oysters and a huge variety of vulnerable fish and molluscs. Hence, the decision of Defra will harm these creatures.

Crew of 51,000-tonne car carrier Hoegh Osaka intentionally grounded the ship to prevent it from capsizing

#HoeghOsaka #BrambleBank #carcarrier It was the 180-metre long Hoegh Osaka – a 51,000-tonne car carrier loaded with 1400 cars and. In order to prevent it from capsizing, the captain and master of the ship took a decision to intentionally ground it.
The car carrier was grounded on a sandbank by its crew because it was severely listing and could have capsized. The owner of the ship has praised the pilot and master for "saving" the vessel and crew by grounding the ship, and showed "great skill".
Experts will now board the ship and in the next few days will work out strategies to right and refloat it. This could take a longtime, probably weeks.
The ship was reported to be carrying cargo including 1,400 cars and 70-80 pieces of construction equipment and it ran aground between Southampton and the Isle of Wight in one of the country's busiest shipping lanes.
The ship had 24 crew members who, along with the pilot, were rescued by a coastguard helicopter and lifeboats after the vessel became stricken on Bramble Bank in the Solent. Two of the crew suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospital – one of them is believed to have a broken leg.
Reports indicate that the Singapore-registered ship had begun to list severely after it left port in Southampton and is still listing "quite badly" at 52 degrees.