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A City worker raped a young woman after a cocaine and champagne-fuelled impromptu party at a stockbrokers’ office, a court has heard.

Daniel Green, 26, allegedly targeted the comatose woman, who had curled up to sleep under a desk in the early hours of May 16 2015, the Old Bailey was told.

Opening the trial, Timothy Forster said Green and the alleged victim had met up during after-work drinks in the City of London the night before.

He was with a group of men from StratX, a firm he had only recently joined, while she was with a female colleague from another company, ‘hopping from one bar to another’.

Mr Forster told jurors: ‘It is common ground everyone was consuming alcohol and you will have to decide to what extent alcohol affected their behaviour but no-one suggests they were so drunk they could not remember what they were doing.’

The two women, and possibly also Green, had taken ‘a small amount of cocaine’ during the evening, he said.

Someone from the stockbrokers’ suggested the group go back to their office in Abchurch Lane to carry on the party, listening to music and drinking, Mr Forster said.

By the early hours of the morning, most of the revellers had gone home, leaving Green, the alleged victim, who had produced a bottle of champagne, and two others.

The woman eventually became tired and, rather than calling a taxi, fell asleep underneath a desk in another office in the building, the court heard.

According to her account, she awoke to feel Green pulling her lower clothes down and having sex with her.

Mr Forster said: ‘She realises what he is doing, she says “no” but he carries on.

‘When she bursts into tears, he stops. He then got up and left her in the room, quietly sobbing in the gloom of the office.

‘She lay there for a while before she decided to do something – she called her best friend.’

Realising what the woman was saying, the friend called the police while she was still on the other line, the court heard

Police arrived at the offices at 7.15am but Green had already left, the court was told.

He was later arrested and denied the allegation against him even though the woman’s DNA had been found on his boxer shorts, jurors heard.

Mr Forster said it was understood that Green, of Prospect Hill, Walthamstow, north-eat London, admits having sexual intercourse with the woman that night but denies it was rape.

Giving evidence, the alleged victim tearfully told jurors how she had spent the evening celebrating a successful week with colleagues.
Finishing work at about 4pm, she and some of her colleagues went to The Vintry bar before moving to Harry’s Bar, where she met the StratX trader party.

They all went on to a nightclub before it was decided to go back to the Abchurch Lane offices of StratX rather than head in to Soho.

The woman told jurors that Green had been dancing near to her and her friend in the club, adding that she suspected that he ‘fancied’ them.

During the evening, she took ‘three pinches and a line of cocaine’ which had the effect of ‘sobering’ her up and making her ‘more aware’, she said.
At the office, the group put on music, drank champagne and took more cocaine.

The woman said she took three lines of cocaine and most of the group joined in the drug-taking, including Green.

By about 4am, the woman began to tire, deciding to have a nap in the building and get the first train home at 6.30am, because she did not have enough money for a taxi.

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No chill at all for Fayose!!

The struggle to escape poverty

Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose yesterday signed a bill to regulate grazing, into law, with a warning that any herdsman caught with arms will face charges of terrorism.
The governor said the law would curtail activities of suspected herdsmen, who move about with firearms, unleashing terror on citizens.
According to the new law, any offender arrested and convicted is liable to six months’ imprisonment without any option of fine.
Grazing activities in designated places would take place between 7 am and 6 pm daily in Ekiti State.
The governor vowed that his administration will enforce the law, noting that the law was not targeted at any particular group but to ensure that the state does not descend into anarchy and senseless bloodletting.
Fayose signed the bill into law, with traditional rulers, community leaders and interest groups present.
He promised to convoke such a meeting once in three months to review the security situation and other issues affecting the state.
The governor earlier meet with the monarchs and community leaders at the Osuntokun Lodge of the Government House before giving his assent to the law in the open.
He said the bill became expedient to prevent a recurrence of an attack by suspected herdsmen on Oke Ako in Ikole Local Government, where two people were killed and scores injured on May 20.
The governor noted that by working with rulers, he would get a feedback on those plundering state resources, such as trees, farmlands and others.


Fayose said: “My government took the bill to the House after what happened in Oke Ako some months ago. The House has passed the bill and I have to assent it. It becomes a law from today that if you do anything to the contrary you will be punished by the law.”
Any herdsman caught with firearms or any weapon while grazing in Ekiti now will be charged with terrorism. I solicit your support for this government to succeed.”
The provisions of the law was read to the audience by the House of Assembly Speaker, Kola Oluwawole, who said the government will collaborate with local councils to apportion lands for grazing in designated areas.

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Now the price of rice will come down!!

Some 6,500 migrants were saved off the Libyan coast in 40 separate rescue missions on Monday, the Italian coast guard said on Twitter, in one of the largest influxes of refugees in a single day so far this year.
The migrants were packed on board scores of boats, many of them flimsy rubber dinghies that become dangerously unstable in high seas.
Most were believed to be Africans, Reuters reported.

Data from the International Organization for Migration released on Friday said around 105,000 migrants had reached Italy by boat so far in 2016, many of them setting sail from Libya.

An estimated 2,726 men, women and children have died over the same period trying to make the journey.
About 1,100 migrants were rescued from boats in the Strait of Sicily on Sunday as they tried to reach Europe, the coast guard said. More refugees were expected to set sail this week because of favourable weather conditions.
Italy has been on the front line of Europe’s migrant crisis for three years, and more than 400,000 have successfully made the voyage to Italy from North Africa since the beginning of 2014, fleeing violence and poverty.

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The much expected Dangote Rice is billed to hit the market soon as the company commences harvest of its first tranche.
Sources within the organisation said that Aliko Dangote was happy with the news of the harvest, especially as the rice would be launched in the right time to ease the pains of Nigerians of buying rice at N20, 000 per bag.

“We are really excited about our rice projects,” the source said.
Once we commence the sales of our rice, I can authoritatively tell you that the price of rice will crash in the country and make importation of rice unattractive.”
Earlier in the year, Dangote inaugurated its 8,000-hectare rice out-growers’ scheme in Hadejia, Jigawa State, with the distribution of rice seedlings to farmers.
A statement issued by the group said that the scheme, a partnership progamme with governments aimed at reducing Nigeria’s food imports, had the potential to provide 10,000 direct and indirect jobs.


It said the rice project executed by the Dangote Rice Limited in Hadejia, would be replicated in six other states of the federation.
It said the project was part of agreement signed by the Dangote and the federal government, on the one hand, and Jigawa State Government on the other.
The Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, was quoted as saying that the federal government was ready to support the scheme and make it a success.

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Car bomb explosion

A car bomb explosion rocked a police headquarters in the town of Cizre in Turkey on Friday, killing nine people and wounding dozens, sources said, in the latest in a spate of attacks in the country’s turbulent south east.

News channel NTV showed large plumes of smoke billowing from the site which it said was a police checkpoint. Cizre is located in Sirnak, a province that borders both Syria and Iraq and has a largely Kurdish population.
State-run Anadolu Agency blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has been involved in almost daily clashes in the region since last July, when a ceasefire between it and the government collapsed.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. More than 40,000 people, mostly Kurds, have died since the rebels took up arms in 1984.
On Thursday, Interior Minister Efkan Ala accused the group of attacking a convoy carrying the main opposition party leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

The government has blamed the PKK for a series of attacks this month in the southeast. The group has claimed responsibility for at least one attack, on a police station.

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Biafra people

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday, August 24 denied reports in some quarters that there was a split in its ranks, saying that the organisation remained united and strong in pursuing the cause of Biafra self-determination.

The head of media and publicity of IPOB, Emma Powerful, said the organisation under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, had not changed and the loyalty of members was not in doubt.
“The only recognised IPOB is the one led by Nnamdi Kanu,” he said, adding that both locally and internationally there is no other group that goes by that name

According to This Day, Powerful blamed the insinuation of leadership crisis on Dr. Dozie Ikedife of Bilie human rights group, who had some time ago, claimed that he was the leader of IPOB even when he did not know how the organisation was formed by Kanu.
According to him, Ikedife and his group have seen that “a lot of progress has been made in the Biafra struggle” and therefore want to hijack the leadership of IPOB, adding that they have failed in their mischievous mission.

Ikedife had in March 2016 along with some people formed what they called customary government of Biafra, which they regarded as shadow government of Biafra without any recourse to IPOB leadership hence it was disowned by the members.

The IPOB media and publicity head noted that it was the detractors that were now giving the impression that IPOB is divided but the world knows better and nobody can claim what is not real.

“Nnamdi Kanu remains the undisputable leader and symbol of IPOB and no other organisation can change the situation,” he insisted.

Earlier reports had suggested that the position of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as led by Nnamdi Kanu, had been described as inflexible and defeatist by a faction of IPOB identified as the Re-branded Indigenous People of Biafra (TRIPOB).

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Earthquake in Myanmar

A powerful earthquake shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, killing at least three people including two children, and damaging scores of centuries-old Buddhist pagodas around the ancient capital of Bagan.

The 6.8 magnitude quake shook buildings across the Southeast Asian country, with tremors felt as far away as Thailand – where witnesses reported high rise towers swaying in Bangkok – Bangladesh and eastern India.

“We felt quite heavy shaking for about 10 seconds and started to evacuate the building when there was another strong tremor,” said Vincent Panzani of charity Save the Children.

He spoke from Pakkoku, a small town about 25 km (15 miles) northeast of Bagan, the centrepiece of Myanmar’s rapidly expanding tourism industry.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck near the town of Chauk, on the Ayeyarwaddy River south of Bagan and about 175 km (110 miles) southwest of the country’s second city Mandalay, just after 5 p.m. (1030 GMT).

Fire department and Red Cross officials said two children were killed in the small town of Yenanchaung, south of Chauk.

“Two young girls died when a pagoda collapsed on a river bank,” said Moe Thidar Win, deputy director of the disaster management team at the Myanmar Red Cross Society.

“One man died in a Pakokku tobacco factory when the roof collapsed on him.”

In Bagan, known as the “City of 4 Million Pagodas”, one female tourist was injured at a pagoda, said local official Khin Mya Lwin.

The Ministry of Information said nearly 100 of Bagan’s famed pagodas, mostly built between the 11th and 13th centuries, had been damaged.

Bagan has around 2,000-3,000 pagodas and temples, spread over a 42-sq km plain ringed by mist-covered mountains. It rivals Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and Borobudur in Indonesia as Asia’s premier archaeological site.

Elsewhere, damage appeared to have been relatively light, although reports were still filtering through as night fell.

“My house shook during the quake. Many people were scared and they ran out of the buildings,” said Maung Maung Kyaw, a local official of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Chauk.

“Some of the old buildings have cracks. The biggest damage is to the bank building in the town.”

The quake struck at a relatively deep 84 km (52 miles), the USGS said.

“Most of the reports of damage have been to the pagodas in the area, with dozens impacted, particularly around Bagan,” said Save the Children’s Panzani in Pakkoku.

“There have also been reports of damage to smaller, more basic buildings… Several of our staff who’ve lived in this part of Myanmar their whole lives said it was the strongest earthquake they’ve ever felt.”

The quake shook buildings in Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, and in other towns and cities, witnesses said.

Office buildings in the Thai capital Bangkok, to the east of Myanmar, shook for a few seconds, residents
there said.
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Love for the gorillas

Millions of people across the world own pets – but how many people do you know that have lived with a gorilla for 18 years?

One couple in France, Pierre and Eliane Thivillon, have lived with their gorilla, called Digit, for 18 years.

She was a tiny four pounds and six ounces when they took her in, but is a little bit bigger than that now.

That doesn’t stop her still sometimes trying to get into bed with her owners though.

The couple took her in when she was abandoned as a baby and kept her in own enclosure next to their home in Lyon.
According to the Metro, the couple said they didn’t go out for 13 years because Digit didn’t like being left alone.

Pierre said in 2013: “We cannot leave Digit overnight with anyone else, which means we haven’t be able to go out for 13 years.

“We haven’t had a holiday, or a night away. We haven’t been to the cinema, the theatre, or out for dinner.
“It would make Digit sad if we weren’t here, and if she is sad we are, too.”

According to The Sun, the caring couple run a private zoo and sanctuary for rescued animals from circuses and badly run zoos.

They look after over a thousand animals, including snow leopards, tigers, lions, and eight other gorillas.


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A mum has told how her baby girl miraculously survived for an hour in water after the family’s boat crashed and capsized.

Tammy Brossard was returning from dinner with her husband and two young daughters when their boat crashed into a wire holding a telephone pole up.

The couple were thrown into the water with infant daughter Charlotte and 23-month-old girl Kennedy when the boat overturn around 11pm on Friday in Cocoa, Florida.

Police and a bystander raced to rescue the stricken family.

Shaken Tammy told Click Orlando: “God was with us. Our boat hit the corner of the power lines and we all ejected.”

Woman killed after going swimming off Jersey coast named as Joy Godfray

Recounting how she frantically searched for her children in the dark, Tammy said: “I had Charlotte in my hands still and the boat had flipped and I climbed on top of the boat.

“I jumped in the water and we tried to search [for Kennedy]. We couldn’t tell where the crying was coming from.

“We kept searching and searching.”

Witness Dorothy Dixon saw the horror unfold as the distraught mother “kept swimming and looking”.

“The mom and dad did everything they could,” she told Click Orlando.

Incredibly, Tammy was able to salvage her water-damaged mobile phone and raised the alarm.

Police arrived and pulled the distraught parents and baby Charlotte to safety but were unable to locate little Kennedy, even with the help of a helicopter.

It was then that they realised the tot was under the boat.

Rescuers braved the dark waters with no life jackets or oxygen tanks to rescue the toddler, who was found shaken but uninjured around 45 minutes later.
A spokesman for the Cocoa Police Department said: “Officer Rush and Worthy pulled the child out from under the boat and got her to paramedics for treatment.

“Usually, instances like this don’t turn out like that.

“A boating accident that severe, with that much damage, could’ve been a lot worse.

“The air pocket in the boat and the life jacket saved her life.”

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A mum has told how her baby girl miraculously survived for an hour in water after the family’s boat crashed and capsized.

Tammy Brossard was returning from dinner with her husband and two young daughters when their boat crashed into a wire holding a telephone pole up.

The couple were thrown into the water with infant daughter Charlotte and 23-month-old girl Kennedy when the boat overturn around 11pm on Friday in Cocoa, Florida.

Police and a bystander raced to rescue the stricken family.

Shaken Tammy told Click Orlando: “God was with us. Our boat hit the corner of the power lines and we all ejected.”

Woman killed after going swimming off Jersey coast named as Joy Godfray

Recounting how she frantically searched for her children in the dark, Tammy said: “I had Charlotte in my hands still and the boat had flipped and I climbed on top of the boat.

“I jumped in the water and we tried to search [for Kennedy]. We couldn’t tell where the crying was coming from.

“We kept searching and searching.”

Witness Dorothy Dixon saw the horror unfold as the distraught mother “kept swimming and looking”.

“The mom and dad did everything they could,” she told Click Orlando.

Incredibly, Tammy was able to salvage her water-damaged mobile phone and raised the alarm.

Police arrived and pulled the distraught parents and baby Charlotte to safety but were unable to locate little Kennedy, even with the help of a helicopter.

It was then that they realised the tot was under the boat.

Rescuers braved the dark waters with no life jackets or oxygen tanks to rescue the toddler, who was found shaken but uninjured around 45 minutes later.
A spokesman for the Cocoa Police Department said: “Officer Rush and Worthy pulled the child out from under the boat and got her to paramedics for treatment.

“Usually, instances like this don’t turn out like that.

“A boating accident that severe, with that much damage, could’ve been a lot worse.

“The air pocket in the boat and the life jacket saved her life.”

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A mum has told how her baby girl miraculously survived for an hour in water after the family’s boat crashed and capsized.

Tammy Brossard was returning from dinner with her husband and two young daughters when their boat crashed into a wire holding a telephone pole up.

The couple were thrown into the water with infant daughter Charlotte and 23-month-old girl Kennedy when the boat overturn around 11pm on Friday in Cocoa, Florida.

Police and a bystander raced to rescue the stricken family.

Shaken Tammy told Click Orlando: “God was with us. Our boat hit the corner of the power lines and we all ejected.”

Woman killed after going swimming off Jersey coast named as Joy Godfray

Recounting how she frantically searched for her children in the dark, Tammy said: “I had Charlotte in my hands still and the boat had flipped and I climbed on top of the boat.

“I jumped in the water and we tried to search [for Kennedy]. We couldn’t tell where the crying was coming from.

“We kept searching and searching.”

Witness Dorothy Dixon saw the horror unfold as the distraught mother “kept swimming and looking”.

“The mom and dad did everything they could,” she told Click Orlando.

Incredibly, Tammy was able to salvage her water-damaged mobile phone and raised the alarm.

Police arrived and pulled the distraught parents and baby Charlotte to safety but were unable to locate little Kennedy, even with the help of a helicopter.

It was then that they realised the tot was under the boat.

Rescuers braved the dark waters with no life jackets or oxygen tanks to rescue the toddler, who was found shaken but uninjured around 45 minutes later.
A spokesman for the Cocoa Police Department said: “Officer Rush and Worthy pulled the child out from under the boat and got her to paramedics for treatment.

“Usually, instances like this don’t turn out like that.

“A boating accident that severe, with that much damage, could’ve been a lot worse.

“The air pocket in the boat and the life jacket saved her life.”

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People are really suffering!

“In this stream, the fish vanished long ago, killed by acids and waste from the mines,” says Lubumbashi resident Heritier Maloba, staring into the murky waters of his childhood fishing hole.

Pollution caused by copper and cobalt mining has not only poisoned the Katapula, a tributary of the mighty Congo River and one of the main waterways in this second city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has also induced widespread illness.

“High concentrations of toxic metals … cause respiratory disorders and birth defects,” particularly in people living near the mines, said toxicologist Celestin Banza of the University of Lubumbashi.

The damage has spread through acids in untreated waste released into nature, polluting the air, the water, and much of Lubumbashi, a city of more than two million residents in the country’s southeast.

Until recently, Lubumbashi was the capital of Katanga province whose fabulous copper wealth was first tapped by Belgian colonists early in the 20th century.

Last year, Katanga was divided into four new provinces. Mining is prevalent in the two southern ones.

Hindered by neglect during the regime of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko (1965-1997) and in the second Congolese war (1998-2003), the mining industry rose from the ashes of devastating conflict.

Between 2010 and 2014, mineral production led strong economic growth and lifted the country up to the rank of the world’s fifth copper producer and top producer of cobalt.


With demand for cobalt driven by its use in mobile phones and electric car batteries, the trade has come at a dire environmental and health cost for DR Congo.

“Mining pollution in Katanga is an undeniable reality,” admits member of parliament Davon N’Sa Mputu Elima, who served as environment minister in 2012-14.

He says that mining firms put up considerable resistance to a 2009 amendment in the country’s environmental code, which imposed stringent new health and safety requirements.

Such protective measures are often not enforced because of what the MP calls “a lack of expertise” among administrative officials responsible for seeing that mining firms comply.

The public health risks listed by Banza, the toxicologist, also include metabolic disorders, certain tumours, burning sensations in the eyes and the throat, and even “short-term sterility”.

You get the feeling you’re suffocating as you breathe,” says Viviane Kibwe, a mother of four in a city where mining installations can be located hard by people’s homes, schools and fields.

Plumes of smoke and clouds of dust rise into the air carrying dangerous particles, while used water containing cleaning chemicals and mineral alloys runs off untreated into streams.

A 2012 toxicology study by the Carter Center found that many ailments in the area are indeed the result of prolonged exposure to harmful chemicals.

The foundation set up by US former president Jimmy Carter in 1982 also criticised “several flaws” and “ambiguity” with regard to the treatment of waste in DR Congo’s mining code of 2002.

Eric Monga, chairman of the Katanga branch of the Business Federation of the Congo, counters that sustainable and safe mining practices have become “an ethical rule” observed by companies.

“An approved study on the environmental impact is a requirement before any operations,” he says.

Yet Belgian and Congolese experts carrying out health studies since 2008 find that concentrations of cobalt, copper, lead and even uranium in urine samples “largely exceeded the reference values accepted by the World Health Organization,” Banza says.

This is particularly true among children, according to the professor.

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“In this stream, the fish vanished long ago, killed by acids and waste from the mines,” says Lubumbashi resident Heritier Maloba, staring into the murky waters of his childhood fishing hole.

Pollution caused by copper and cobalt mining has not only poisoned the Katapula, a tributary of the mighty Congo River and one of the main waterways in this second city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has also induced widespread illness.

“High concentrations of toxic metals … cause respiratory disorders and birth defects,” particularly in people living near the mines, said toxicologist Celestin Banza of the University of Lubumbashi.

The damage has spread through acids in untreated waste released into nature, polluting the air, the water, and much of Lubumbashi, a city of more than two million residents in the country’s southeast.

Until recently, Lubumbashi was the capital of Katanga province whose fabulous copper wealth was first tapped by Belgian colonists early in the 20th century.

Last year, Katanga was divided into four new provinces. Mining is prevalent in the two southern ones.

Hindered by neglect during the regime of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko (1965-1997) and in the second Congolese war (1998-2003), the mining industry rose from the ashes of devastating conflict.

Between 2010 and 2014, mineral production led strong economic growth and lifted the country up to the rank of the world’s fifth copper producer and top producer of cobalt.


With demand for cobalt driven by its use in mobile phones and electric car batteries, the trade has come at a dire environmental and health cost for DR Congo.

“Mining pollution in Katanga is an undeniable reality,” admits member of parliament Davon N’Sa Mputu Elima, who served as environment minister in 2012-14.

He says that mining firms put up considerable resistance to a 2009 amendment in the country’s environmental code, which imposed stringent new health and safety requirements.

Such protective measures are often not enforced because of what the MP calls “a lack of expertise” among administrative officials responsible for seeing that mining firms comply.

The public health risks listed by Banza, the toxicologist, also include metabolic disorders, certain tumours, burning sensations in the eyes and the throat, and even “short-term sterility”.

You get the feeling you’re suffocating as you breathe,” says Viviane Kibwe, a mother of four in a city where mining installations can be located hard by people’s homes, schools and fields.

Plumes of smoke and clouds of dust rise into the air carrying dangerous particles, while used water containing cleaning chemicals and mineral alloys runs off untreated into streams.

A 2012 toxicology study by the Carter Center found that many ailments in the area are indeed the result of prolonged exposure to harmful chemicals.

The foundation set up by US former president Jimmy Carter in 1982 also criticised “several flaws” and “ambiguity” with regard to the treatment of waste in DR Congo’s mining code of 2002.

Eric Monga, chairman of the Katanga branch of the Business Federation of the Congo, counters that sustainable and safe mining practices have become “an ethical rule” observed by companies.

“An approved study on the environmental impact is a requirement before any operations,” he says.

Yet Belgian and Congolese experts carrying out health studies since 2008 find that concentrations of cobalt, copper, lead and even uranium in urine samples “largely exceeded the reference values accepted by the World Health Organization,” Banza says.

This is particularly true among children, according to the professor.

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Engrobiorah:
Greedy op

What did I do?

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When most of us say we’re “going off the grid,” it usually means we won’t have cell service for a few hours. For artists Catherine King and Wayne Adams, it’s meant living on a homemade island near Tofino, British Columbia for the last 24 years.

The couple—he is a carver and she is a retired ballerina, writer, and painter—began building the fortress in 1992 and have since constructed a house, dance floor, lighthouse, four greenhouses, and more. It was all done with a hand saw and hammer; as Wayne told Great Big Story in the video below: “I know every board and nail by name.” The island is tied to the shore and Wayne estimates that it weighs about 500 tons.

The couple has dubbed the area “Freedom Cove,” and their subsistence living involves catching fish, growing produce, and generating electricity with solar energy or, occasionally, a generator . They collect drinking water from a nearby waterfall or through rainwater, and they raised their two kids there.
To get to Freedom Cove, one has to travel by water, but you’re welcome to make the trek: Wayne and Catherine offer tours for inquiring minds.

Wayne told Great Big Story that he never gets seasick and, in fact, “When I go to town I get land sick.” After seeing the amazing structure, we can understand why.

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