PICTURES: Wood you believe it happened again

On Monday, January 19, the anniversary of the first timbers from the Ice Prince washing ashore in Worthing, the Russian ship Sinegorsk lost 1,500 tonnes of wood 14 nautical miles south of Newhaven.

Click on the view gallery link to see a series of photographs taken in Ramsgate, Kent, today (Thursday, January 22), which mirror the scene in Worthing last year.

Who 'wood' believe it

A Dover Coastguard spokesman said: "It is starting to come ashore now between Pegwell Bay and Ramsgate and up towards Margate.

"We have just received a report from a fisherman a mile east of Broadstairs to say there's a massive amount of it there.

"He said he'd never seen so much wood in his life."

Police are advising people not to attempt to remove wood from the beaches.

Looking back

On Sunday, January 20, 2008, Worthing beach had been transformed when the bulk of the Ice Prince's cargo washed ashore.

Herald readers sent in hundreds of photographs, which have been mirrored by the events in Kent today.

Links to pictures below:

Click here to see the picture special from January 2008.

GALLERY: Worthing's tide of timber

Readers'photographs: Piles of planks on Worthing and Shoreham beaches

Readers' photographs: Worthing and Shoreham wood beach

Readers' photographs: Timbered Worthing, East Preston and Shoreham beach

Readers' photographs: Wood on Shoreham Beach

Readers' photographs: Wood on Worthing and Shoreham beach

Readers' photographs: Timber on Worthing and Shoreham beach

Readers' photographs : Wood on Worthing beach

2,000 tons of timber hits West Sussex

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