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Mr Helberg was only alerted to the commotion by his panicked neighbour who had watched the ship as it headed straight for shore, in Byneset, near Trondheim."The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don't like to open," Mr Helberg told television channel TV2.

"I went to the window and was quite astonished to see a big ship," he added,"I had to bend my neck to see the top of it. It was so unreal.""Five metres further south and it would have entered the bedroom," he added to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. "I didn't hear anything."

Neighbour Jostein Jorgensen said he was woken by the sound of the ship as it headed at full speed towards land, and ran to Mr Helberg's house."I was sure that he was already outside, but no, there was no sign of life. I rang the doorbell many times and nothing," said Mr Jorgensen.

"And it was only when I called him on the phone that I managed to contact him," he told TV2.

The Cypriot-flagged cargo ship, the NCL Salten, had 16 people on board and was travelling south-west through the Trondheim Fjord to Orkanger when it went off course.A selection of news photographs from around the world.

A selection of news photographs from around the world.More than £90m is being invested in 160 new electric buses, creating "smoother, quieter and greener journeys".

The new fleet will operate across Bristol, Somerset and Wiltshire by next summer as part of First Bus' mission to cut its emissions over the next ten years.Depots will also be electrified at Bath's Weston Island and Lawrence Hill in Bristol during the project, which is jointly funded by First Bus and the government.