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A paddle steamer and riverboat hotel has sunk off the north Wales coast.

The MV Oliver Cromell was being towed to Northern Ireland at the time.

According to a report on the BBC it started sinking on Friday about 12 miles (19km) west of South Stack near Holyhead, Anglesey.

Despite a call to Holyhead Coastguard just after 2pm nothing could be done to stop it sinking just a few hours afterwards.

The report says no-one was injured and there was no pollution.

English Holiday Cruises put the ship up for sale last year with a price tage of £245,000, and the steamer was heading to a new home in Coleraine.

It was first built as a Dutch barge in 1922 and was converted to a riverboat hotel in 1993.