Mystery surrounds a shower of red flares set off over the River Thames, damaging houseboats and cars. The flares were launched at around 10.30pm on Sunday from a housing development near Wapping, ...
Red flares fell on Wapping on the evening of June 7.
'Like fireballs from the sky': Mysterious red flares ignite houseboat fires and burn holes in London homes - The shower of red ‘fireballs’ left residents in Wapping terrified ...
Red sky at night? Run and hide. Londoners have described the carnage after a ‘dangerous’ shower of red flares fell on the capital. Houseboats in a Wapping shipyard caught fire as boaters slept after ...
Police receive reports year after year of red signal flares being seen at sea or in coastal areas. In most cases no one actually needs help, and rescue services have to spend time and manpower ...