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The Slovak government introduced the scrapping incentive, which mirrors similar subsidies in France and Germany, in a bid to halt a slump in new car sales in a former communist economy driven by production of automobiles and electronics.
Martyn Heighton, chairman of the UK's Historic Ship Register committee, said: "The scrapping of the historic Mersey estuarial coaster Wincham is an unbelievable state of affairs.
Scrapping of obsolete ships usually occurs in overseas scrap yards because of the relatively labor-intensive nature of the work, which involves extensive use of hand-operated cutting torches, and environmental problems associated with asbestos.
 
 
 
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