Fatal eastern shore fire

The medical examiner has been called in after police say human remains were found in the aftermath of a house fire on the eastern shore.

Officials say the fire near Clam Bay was reported Monday morning but the body wasn’t found until later that night. They aren’t saying yet if it’s a man or woman. Neighbours reported a couple lived in the house. RCMP are calling the fire suspicious.

Efforts to clean up abandoned vessels

B-C New Democratic MP Sheila Malcolmson came to Nova Scotia yesterday with her campaign to get Ottawa to close a loophole in laws on abandoned vessels.

Malcolmson brought her campaign here because of a couple of high profile cases in recent years…the MV Miner which ground on Scatarie Island and the MV Farley Mowatt which was abandoned in Shelburne Harbour.

The M-P has tabled a bill that would make the coast guard responsible for directing the removal of all abandoned vessels.