Bob Wood wrote: > The Elbe Valley's loss <http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/522> is the > Pontcysyllte's gain <http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/533/>.
This is great news but I do wonder about who writes/checks the citations. From the Unesco site above: "Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long Pontcysyllte Canal is a feat of civil engineering of the Industrial Revolution, completed in the early years of the 19th century. Covering a difficult geographical setting, the building of the canal required substantial, bold civil engineering solutions, especially as it was built without using locks." The BBC report <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/8115190.stm> also contains an interesting "fact" : "Pontcysyllte is one of the region's biggest tourist attractions bringing in 250,000 visitors a year by boat." Yes its a busy canal but 250k visitors by boat? ;-) Incidentally a BBC Wales TV report on Friday which said this looked likely to happen used a pronunciation of the name of the aqueduct that was not even close to any that I've never heard before. I'll keep an ear out for it today (assuming this will make the news again) and try to transcribe it. Steve NB Bream
