The thought of rats turning to cannibalism after being left on an abandoned cruise liner floating in the north Atlantic has got the press into something of a flurry.
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The Lyubov Orlova cruise liner has been drifting across the Atlantic for nearly a year. About the only people happy at the thought of it arriving on a British beach are salvage hunters hoping to trace the 4,250-ton vessel valued at “1 million (£829,000) as scrap. Built in Yugoslavia in 1976, the unlucky vessel was abandoned in a Canadian harbour in 2010 after its owners were embroiled in a debt scandal and did not pay the crew. Newfoundland authorities attempted to sell the hull for scrap to the Dominican Republic, but cut their losses when it came loose in a storm on the way. The ship has been adrift ever since.
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