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MARCH

RNLI Hosts A Titanic Night Out (31 Mar 08, North Wales Pioneer - Colwyn Bay,Wales,UK)
A spectacular Titanic themed event will be held to raise money for the RNLI.
The night will be hosted at St George’s hotel on Friday, April 18, during the week of the 96th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. The famous ship set sail from Belfast on April 2, 1912 and sank 13 days later. A fantastic gala dinner has been organised and live music will be preformed by a local band. A charity auction will be held with fantatic prizes including a luxury weekend break. The chairman of the Belfast Titanic Society will speak in memory of the people who lost their lives. More than 1, 500 people died in the freezing Atlantic when the ‘unsinkable’ ship hit an iceberg. An amazing replica of the titanic, which took more than three years to build, will be visiable for all to see.

Titanic Watch Withdrawn From Auction (28 Mar 08, The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK)
A collector who was selling a pocket watch found on the frozen body of the last victim to be recovered from the Titanic had a change of heart and cancelled the auction. The watch, which had belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, was put up for sale on internet auction site eBay on March 13 with a starting bid of only $100 (£50). With 36 hours to go, and bids having reached $23,000 (£11,500), East Grinstead collector Paul Thorpe, 48, cancelled all bids. He said: "I have decided not to sell it for the moment because I had some interest from a television production company that wants to do a documentary. So at the moment it's still locked away in the safety deposit box."

Council To Stop Titanic Project Sinking (27 Mar 08, Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom)
Belfast City Council is on the verge of investing £10m of ratepayers' money to co-fund a Titanic tourist attraction, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal. Northern Ireland's biggest council is considering dipping into the public purse to help ensure the £90m Titanic Signature Project will be built by 2012 after it struggled to secure the final funding needed. However, some members have voiced fears that the millions proposed to be taken from the public purse could be invested into a "potential white elephant".

Titanic's 'Birthplace' Open To Public (25 Mar 08, Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom)
The secrets of the world's most famous ocean liner were unveiled yesterday in the very place of its birth, as the drawing offices in the old Harland & Wolff building were opened to the public. The original plans for the Titanic were drawn up in the historic shipyard building, which includes the private offices of Lord Pirrie, Chairman of Harland & Wolff, and Thomas Andrews, who helped design the vessel. Among the exhibits on display yesterday were photos and drawings of the ship, period costumes and other memorabilia. Una Reilly, from the Belfast Titanic Society, said the open day was the chance to show visitors and local people alike a little more of the Titanic.

Titanic Offices Open Secrets Of Liner's History (24 Mar 08, Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom)
The Titanic drawing offices are to be unveiled to the public today, unlocking the secrets of the world's most famous ship. The former offices in the old main Harland & Wolff building on Queen's Road will give a unique insight into the history of the ill-fated liner. The building, which was the hub of the H&W empire, is not usually open to the public, but courtesy of Titanic Quarter Ltd, visitors will get the chance to view a real piece of Titanic history never seen before. The drawing offices gave rise to the inception and creation of the Titanic and many other famous luxury liners.

Titanic Watch Up For Web Auction (19 Mar 08, BBC News - UK)
A pocket watch found on the body of the last victim of the Titanic to be recovered has been put up for sale. The item, which belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, hopes to attract bidders on the internet auction website eBay. The 20-year-old, who later moved to Southampton, was one of more than 1,500 victims of the 1912 disaster.

Premier Exhibitions Clinches 10-Year Deal With Luxor Resort (18 Mar 08, Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA)
Tuesday after the markets closed, Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (PRXI | news | PowerRating
announced signing a 10-year deal with Luxor Resort & Casino in Las Vegas to develop a new exhibition complex to showcase 'BODIES . . . The Exhibition', and 'Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition'. The terms of the lease provide a renewal option for an additional 10 years. Premier Exhibitions stated that the 50,000 square feet complex would include the Titanic exhibition, along with at least one themed bar and restaurant, a ''Photo Op'' on Titanic's bow by using a lifeboat to gain access, the BODIES exhibition and gift shops.

Titanic Letter Could Fetch £9000 (17 Mar 08, BBC News - UK)
A letter penned by a passenger of the doomed Titanic which sank in 1912, killing 1,522 people on board, is expected to raise £9,000 at auction. Charles Jones, who worked for the Colgate firm in New York, was returning to the US after a UK trip to buy sheep from Dorset farmer James Foot. Mr Foot received Mr Jones' last letter on 15 April, the actual day the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. Duke's of Dorchester Auctioneers will auction the item on 10 April.

Titanic Telegrams Up For Auction (15 Mar 08, Dorset Echo - England,UK)
Telegrams revealing how a West Dorset farmer was caught up in the drama of the Titanic come up for auction next month. The cables were wired across the Atlantic in the aftermath of the disaster as farmer James Foot waited anxiously to find out the fate of his friend Charles Jones, who sailed on the liner shortly after the pair clinched a sale of sheep. The eight telegrams were found in an envelope along with newspaper cuttings of the sinking and a White Star Line card written by Mr Jones and posted the day that the Titanic sailed from Southampton.

St. Pat's Queen Honors Great-Granny's Courage (12 Mar 08, Chicago Sun-Times - United States)
Nearly a century ago, 15-year-old Anne McGowan sat freezing in a lifeboat in the middle of the Atlantic. Her aunt, Katherine McGowan, was dead more than 2 miles below with the wreckage of the Titanic as young Anne waited for a rescue ship to arrive. "She said by the time the Carpathia finally arrived, her eyes were bleeding from the salt and the cold," Eileen Kapolnek said. "She could remember the screams too." As Kapolnek helps kick off the St. Patrick's Day Parade Saturday, she will remember the courage her great-grandmother, Anne McGowan Straube, demonstrated in leaving Ireland and surviving one of the most harrowing disasters of the 20th century. Straube died in 1990 when Kapolnek was 4, but the Marquette University student said she entered the St. Patrick's Day Parade queen pageant on "a big whim" to make her great-grandmother proud. "The courage that she had, for being that young, is amazing," said Kapolnek, 21, of Park Ridge.

Titanic Exhibit Leaves A Record In Its Wake (6 Mar 08, Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada)
The exhibit generated more than $30.2 million during its six-month run and led to the creation of 742 full-time jobs, according to an economic impact report released yesterday. That $30-million figure overshadows the museum's second-largest featured exhibit, 1999's Leonardo da Vinci show, which attracted $16.1 million in incremental income -- spending by visitors who came to Victoria solely for the exhibit.

Belfast Puts On A Smile (6 Mar 08, Times Online - UK)
More than 1.3 million foreign visitors stayed overnight in Belfast last year, up from 200,000 in 1998, when the Good Friday agreement was signed, beginning the peace process exactly a decade ago next month. The podcast will also cover the whole city. New attractions such as the Titanic's Dock and Pump-House attraction, which explains how the Titanic was built, and the Belfast Eye observation wheel next to City Hall, will be included.

TV Film On Nazi Germany's "Titanic" Draws Millions Of Viewers (3 Mar 08, Deutsche Welle - Germany)
The "Wilhelm Gustloff" had been built to hold 1,500 passengers. The 209 metre-long (685 feet) ship, named after the assassinated head of the Swiss Nazi party, was launched in 1937 and conceived as a cruise liner for the Nazis' leisure organisation Kraft durch Freude, or "strength through joy." Once war broke out, it was used by the German military. But 10,000 refugees, many of them women and children, fleeing the advancing Red Army were on board the former Nazi cruise ship when it was sunk by torpedoes from a Soviet submarine on Jan. 30, 1945, in the Baltic Sea shortly after leaving the port of Gotenhafen (now Gdynia, Poland) in Gdansk Bay. The boat had not been flagged as a Red Cross transport. Over 9,000 died in the icy water, six times more than were killed when the "Titanic" sunk after hitting an iceberg in 1912.


FEBRUARY

Journey Into Birth Of Titanic (29 Feb 08, Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom)
An exhibition telling the story of Titanic's birth in Belfast has opened at W5 in the Odyssey. The 'Titanic: Designed and Built in Belfast' exhibition journeys into the past through the lens of RJ Welch - who was the official photographer at Harland & Wolff where the legendary liner was built. The new exhibition, developed with Belfast City Council for the 2008 Titanic Made in Belfast Festival, will open to the public tomorrow

12-Year-Old Student Finds A Titanic Mentor (26 Feb 08, Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA)
When you want to find out about a profession, sometimes it's best to go straight to the expert. It was 1985 when underwater explorer Robert Ballard made his discovery of the Titanic shipwreck and Kris Ludwig was growing up in Colorado. Four years later, a 12-year-old Ludwig wrote a letter to Ballard, seeking information about becoming an oceanographer. To her surprise, he replied. It was the start of a lifelong mentorship and, eventually, a friendship. Ballard remembers it was Ludwig's enthusiasm and passion to follow the same career path he had followed that prompted him to answer her questions.

Search For Titanic Tales To Mark Centenary (25 Feb 08, Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland)
People across Ireland are being called to tell their tales and memories of the Titanic. The Belfast Titanic Convention wants historians and maritime fans to become part of the centennial celebrations to mark the launch of the vessel in 1911. Although the story of the Titanic has been told many times across the world, the convention wants to compile an Irish angle on the ship, which was built in Belfast and sailed from Cobh. The anniversary of the sinking of the stricken vessel will be marked in April, 2012. Dick Mackenzie, chairman of the convention, said: "Obviously, the Titanic has a lifeblood connection to Northern Ireland, but the story is much bigger and covers every part of the island of Ireland.

Berg Watchers; International Ice Patrol Keeps Shipping Lanes Safe From Icebergs Since The Sinking Of The Titanic (25 Feb 08, St. John’s Telegram - St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
The iceberg season has begun, at least for the International Ice Patrol. The U.S. Coast Guard’s annual hunt for ocean-going bits of glaciers drifting through Iceberg Alley off Newfoundland started with the sinking of the Titanic 95 years ago. It continues with air reconnaissance patrols over 500,000 square miles of the North Atlantic, looking for icebergs that pose a threat to international shipping lanes.
“We draw the limit of all known ice,” said Cmdr. Scott Rogerson, head of the ice patrol based in Groton, Conn. “We have had reports through the years of icebergs as far south as Bermuda.”
Rogerson was in St. John’s earlier this month for the first ice patrol flight of the season that typically runs from mid-February to July. Almost two weeks ago, the most southerly icebergs were spotted along the edge of sea ice about 60 miles northeast of St. John’s.

Art On The High Seas (23 Feb 08, Liverpool Echo - UK)
A painting by Norman Wilkinson is perhaps the most famous artwork on a ship. The Approach to Plymouth Harbour hung above the mantelpiece in the First Class smoking room on the Titanic. It has been represented in many films and TV documentaries about the disaster. Thomas Andrews, the Titanic’s designer and a hero of the tragedy, was last seen staring fixedly at the painting, awaiting his fate.
Shortly afterwards Titanic plunged beneath the waves, taking Andrews and 1,500 people to their deaths. His body was never recovered. Leading marine painter Wilkinson (1878 – 1971) also painted The Approach to the New World on Titanic’s sister ship Olympic which plied the seas successfully for many years before being scrapped. At Merseyside Maritime Museum there are a number of artworks which once graced famous ships. There is one of a pair of glass panels removed from the officers’ wardroom on the doomed Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat submarine in 1915.

Former Director At Mariners' Museum Charged With Selling Items (20 Feb 08, The Virginian-Pilot–Norfolk, VA, USA)
A former director at The Mariners' Museum and his wife face federal mail and wire fraud charges accusing them of selling nearly $163,000 worth of historical items, including memorabilia from the Newport News museum's Titanic collection.Lester F. Weber, 46, and his wife, Lori E. Childs, 49, made their initial appearances in U.S. District Court on Tuesday and were released on $5,000 bond each. In an indictment unsealed Tuesday, Weber was charged with 26 counts of mail and wire fraud, theft and filing false tax returns. His wife was charged with 25 similar counts, excluding theft. Among the most prized collectibles Weber is accused of stealing are memorabilia collected by a mother and son who survived the 1912 sinking of the famed luxury liner Titanic. In 1986 the museum acquired 115 items collected by Leah and Frank Aks, who were aboard the Titanic on their way to Norfolk to join Leah's husband. Weber is accused of taking original Titanic photographs, lawsuit papers filed a year after the tragedy, and letters, and selling them on eBay for between $300 and $988 each, according to the indictment.

Titanic Wreckage and Ephemera Highlight Sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts at Bonhams & Butterfields (19 Feb 08, Art Daily-USA)
Within the Fine Books & Manuscripts auction at Bonhams & Butterfields on Sunday, February 17, 2008 are five lots of ephemera related to the infamous British luxury passenger liner RMS Titanic. Crowned jewel of the White Star Liner at the time, the vessel sunk during its maiden voyage in the early hours of April 15, 1912. Nearly 96-years later, the Titanic disaster, mythology and items surrounding the tragic event have continued to fascinate millions. Among the offerings at Bonhams are wreckage and recovery items, including: a piece of perhaps the most famous of all Titanic's lifeboats -boat #6; an original Titanic silver print photograph-postcard; an advertisement for Titanic's return voyage on April 20, 1912; several period press clippings from the New York Herald, Pennsylvania Chronicle and News and the Christian Herald Magazine; and sheet music memorializing the disaster -- as well as two copies of a book on the tragedy.

RIP: Ralph White Passes Away At Age 66; Documented Discovery of Titanic (13 Feb 08, Los Angeles Times - CA,USA)
Ralph Bradshaw White, who documented the 1985 discovery of the sunken Titanic, then returned to the bottom of the ocean more than 30 times to film and recover artifacts from the ill-fated vessel, died Feb. 4 at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. He was 66. White died from complications of an aortic aneurysm, said his daughter, Krista Few of Yokosuka, Japan. The public received an up-close look at the wreckage site through images White captured. His footage appears in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film "Titanic" and in "Titanica," a documentary for IMAX released in the early 1990s.

Titanic Museum Plans Month-Long Valentine's Event (6 Feb 08, Joplin Independent - Joplin,MO,USA)
Valentine’s Day will be celebrated for 29 days in February at the Titanic Museum Attraction in Branson, Missouri. Among the original passengers, at least 12 couples were honeymooning aboard Titanic, many celebrating their first journey as newlyweds on the ship’s own maiden voyage. Now, sweethearts everywhere can experience pure romance, beauty and elegance on the world’s only full-sized replica of Titanic’s original Grand Staircase. With a reservation and the price of admission, guests can make arrangements to propose marriage, announce their engagements or renew wedding vows with Titanic’s Captain Smith presiding. More than 20 couples have already reserved the Grand Staircase as their special spot to say ‘I do’ again.

A Story That Was Nearly Lost In The Icy Atlantic (3 Feb 08, Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland)
Martina was inspired to write this book when she stumbled across the passenger list for the Titanic. A name and address leapt out at her, that of Thomas O'Brien of Bonavie, County Limerick. Martina's grandmother Josie English, nee O'Brien, came from Bonavie. Further investigation revealed Tom O' Brien to be her grandmother's uncle. Then Martina learned how he had eloped with a local girl, Hannah Godfrey, taking passage on the Titanic. His family in Ireland only knew that he was emigrating to his sisters in Chicago. No-one knew he was bringing a wife with him. Martina humanises this story on an intensely personal level and tells his story, not as history or fact, but fiction. This extraordinarily moving story happened to a man who perished in the icy Atlantic waters just three generations removed from Martina and so Martina tells his story and the story of those he left behind, Hannah Godfrey, the woman with whom Tom O' Brien eloped and Marion O'Brien, their baby.


JANUARY

Lindsay's Titanic Connection; New Exhibit Highlights Lindsay Man's Belongings (26 Jan 08, Lindsay Daily Post - Lindsay,Canada)
A Lindsay native's personal belongings lost at sea are one of the main focal points of a Titanic Exhibit currently on display in Toronto. The irony is that although Harold Irwin's luggage was on board the Titanic, he wasn't. In 1910 Irwin decided to leave town and set out on a journey to discover the world with his good friend, Henry Sutehall. The young men hitched rides, stowed away in boxcars and even met a few of the era's most notorious people, such as author Jack London, communist Vladimir Lenin and India's spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi. In 1912 they were ready to return home, so they purchased two third-class boarding passes for the maiden voyage of the Titanic. The night before the Titanic set sail Irwin was kidnapped after cheating in a poker game. He never made it on board.

Titanic Set To Dock In Ballinrobe (25 Jan 08, Mayo Advertiser - Mayo,Ireland)
Rehearsals and preparations are now in full swing for Ballinrobe Musical Society, who will stage the acclaimed musical Titanic – A New Musical, in Ballinrobe next month. The most elaborate set-construction project ever undertaken by the Society has now been completed in the auditorium of Ballinrobe Community School, where the show will open on Saturday February 9, and run until Saturday February 16. The set took about 1,000 working hours to build, boasts enough 9x2 trusses to roof a large house, sits on three levels, and has nine sets of stairs – and it will all be dismantled the week after the show.

Titanic Musical At Norwich Theatre Royal (25 Jan 08, Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norwich,England,UK)
One of the major stories of the 20th century is about to make a big splash in Norwich as the Theatre Royal stages Titanic the Musical sailing from Monday January 28 to Saturday February 2 in a lavish production by the Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society. Performances are nightly at 7.30pm with a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm.

Exhibit Chronicles Life Aboard The Titanic (25 Jan 08, Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA)
Beginning Saturday, Moody Gardens will display more than 125 authentic artifacts recovered from one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks. Although you won’t find a ridiculously big blue heart necklace in any of the glass cases (that’s all movie magic, said exhibit spokeswoman Katherine Morgenstern), you will find haunting remnants from the more than 1,500 artists, movie stars, government officials, business tycoons and immigrants who died on the Titanic 95 years ago. “This exhibit focuses on the people on board,” Morgenstern said. “It’s designed to give a feel for 1912. We all know the story of the Titanic, but you don’t know the people.”

Titanic Stamps To Be Launched (23 Jan 08, Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom)
The first set of commemorative stamps marking the 96th anniversary of the Titanic have been designed.
The collectable First Class stamps have been produced by the Titanic Heritage Trust in conjunction with Royal Mail and will be the first in the 'White Star History' series being rolled out every year from now until 2012 - the centenary of Titanic's maiden voyage. Each sheet in the first series includes five RMS Titanic 'The Fourth Funnel' and five 'SS Nomadic The Farewell' stamps. The images are taken from fine art paintings by Belfast artist Jim McDonald whose work depicts shipyard people, street children and pub scenes from the bygone era in the east of the city. A First Day Cover with Belfast or Southampton postmarks and franked 15, April 08 will also go on sale.

Swansea Museum Exhibition One Of Best In UK (22 Jan 08, News Wales - Knighton,UK )
The Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition currently running at Swansea Museum in Victoria Road has been named in Britain's top five by The Times newspaper. It's the only exhibition in Wales to have made the cut. Thousands of visitors have been to see Titanic Honour and Glory since it was unveiled in October. And anyone looking to catch a glimpse of the exhibition has just over a month left with the exhibits due to be packed away on March 2.

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition To Open At The Moody Gardens Discovery Center In Galveston,
Texas on 26 Jan (21 Jan 08, CNNMoney.com - USA )
RMS Titanic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. has entered into an agreement to present Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the Moody Gardens Discovery Museum in Galveston, Texas. The Exhibition will open on January 26th for a limited engagement. "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition will be a great addition to the Moody Gardens experience, adding more opportunities for education in history and science," said John Zendt, General Manager of Moody Gardens. "We are happy to bring this opportunity to our guests while simultaneously making a positive impact on the city and local tourism."

Ice Sculptors Try To Keep Cool In Competition (20 Jan 08, News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA)
Visitors to the Titanic Museum on Saturday saw artwork that will never be seen again. It all melted in a few hours. Titanic's second annual National Ice Sculpture Contest featured 17 sculptors, ranging from a 15-year-old first-timer to the 2005 world champion. Their artwork was just as diverse. These included a giant jellyfish and a "Tigershark" with the head of tiger and the body of a shark. The museum gave more than $7,500 in prizes to 10 professionals and five amateurs. Most competitors work either for an ice sculpting company, a restaurant or are in culinary school."

My Remarkable Titanic Tale (19 Jan 08, Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK)
After the St Thomas More Middle School pupil won a part in a musical about the tragic ship, he was amazed to discover the story of his own great-great-grandfather's cousin, who was on the boat when it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank. But Jack's character in the musical performed by the Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society will be more fortunate than his relative, Michael Linehan, who drowned in the icy seas at the age of 21 after the ship hit an iceberg.

Don't Sink A Lot Into Titanic Paintings (19 Jan 08, Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada)
Q: I have two paintings of the Titanic that were originally in my grandparents' Toronto home in the 1950s when I was a child. One shows the Titanic floating; the other it sinking. I was told they're painted on the back of the glass. The actual images, without the frames, measure 36 by 46 centimetres. Some of the paint has chipped off and the paper backing is very brittle and breaking off. There's a signature, G.L. Irish, on the bottom corner of one of the paintings.

Titanic Exhibition Forms Part Of Pendle Beer Festival (14 Jan 08, Pendle Today - UK)
As part of the forthcoming Pendle Beer Festival, Colne Heritage Centre will be exhibiting a display depicting the story of the Titanic and Wallace Hartley. Martyn Pashley, festival organiser, said: "The theme of this year's festival is 'All At Sea' and features beers with a nautical link. We were delighted when Christine Bradley of Colne Heritage Centre suggested a display of information about the Titanic and Wallace Hartley, one of Colne's great heroes." 

A Titanic Survivor (4 Jan 08, Daily Echo - Southampton,England,UK)
The last living survivor of the Titanic will be giving a rare talk about how the fateful event shaped her life. Millvina Dean, will be speaking on April 11, three days before the 96th anniversary of the sinking at The Turner Sims concert hall as part of a three-day programme of events organised by Southampton City Council to remember the disaster. The 96-year-old recently hit out at the BBC's Christmas Day Doctor Who episode depicting the liner as a spaceship colliding with the Tardis as "disrespectful to the dead". She said: "I didn't watch it. I don't watch anything connected with Titanic because it upsets me."

Titanic Ceremony Still On (3 Jan 08, BBC News - UK)
The official commemoration of the 96th anniversary of the Titanic tragedy will go ahead as planned, Belfast City Council has said. A service is held at the Titanic memorial at the City Hall every April to remember the 34 NI victims. The council is due to consider an application to extend the popular Big Wheel's stay in Belfast. However, it said that this would not affect the annual commemoration marking the 1912 sinking of the Titanic.

5¢ Toronto Streetcar Tickets Found In Titanic Wreck (3 Jan 08, National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada)
A piece of Toronto transit history went on display today at the Ontario Science Centre, tying the city to one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century: the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic. A dozen 5¢ Toronto streetcar tickets dredged up from the famous shipwreck, which lies on the bottom of the north Atlantic nearly four kilometres beneath the surface, will be part of the science centre’s Titanic exhibit, along with dozens of other personal belongings from the more than 1,500 passengers and crew who died when the huge liner struck an iceberg and sank in 1912.

Concerns Over Belfast Memorial (2 Jan 08, Belfast Newsletter - Belfast,UK )
Titanic devotees said yesterday that they will hold Belfast City Council to its word to ensure future memorials to the ocean liner's victims are able to continue without the hindrance of Belfast's Big Wheel. The Belfast Titanic Society was concerned when news that the success of the wheel could result in its stay being extended past the original March deadline, because a Titanic memorial is surrounded by the wheel. Una Reilly, chairman of the society, said however that the council had informed them that though the wheel will stay beyond March, thereby affecting the 2008 memorial service, it would be gone by the following year.











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