The old Severn Bridge on the M48 was shut as gales rushed in from the Bristol Channel.

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The restaurant boasts panoramic views over the city and out across the Bristol Channel and Brecon Beacons.

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He believes the loss of Swansea undermines a previous promise to maintain one coastguard centre in the Bristol Channel.

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Its elevation gave a view over south Wales and the Bristol Channel.

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An island in the Bristol Channel which could be sold by Cardiff Council should be developed for leisure, according to the Somerset Tourism Association.

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Fishermen who ventured into dangerous seas in the Bristol Channel in a dinghy refused help from the lifeguard because they wanted to carry on fishing.

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Sea water will be pumped in via underground tunnels 2-3km (1.2 to 1.8 miles) in length to cool the two nuclear reactors and then back to the Bristol Channel.

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The Bristol Channel is shaped like a funnel.

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We know that his sponsors Nike, Oakley, Dasani, Bristol Myers, the Discovery Channel, Michelob and Subaru have fled.

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But ex- Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Lord German said the scheme came with enormous costs to the environment and was a Bristol Channel barrage than a Severn estuary one.

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