A YOUNG woman was evacuated from a pleasure boat near the Tower of London on New Year s Eve. A spokeswoman for the Tower Lifeboat Crew said the incident was not alcohol related but that the woman had become unconscious after becoming unwell.

A YOUNG woman was evacuated from a pleasure boat near the Tower of London on New Year's Eve.

A spokeswoman for the Tower Lifeboat Crew said the incident was not alcohol related but that the woman had become unconscious after becoming unwell.

The crew, part of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, got the woman onto dry land at St Katharine Docks, at about 9pm, where she was taken to hospital by paramedics.