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Barney Davis

Body of firefighter who died trying to swim the Channel washes up on Belgium shore

A “determined” firefighter’s body washed up on the shore of Belgium weeks after vanishing on a charity swim across the English Channel.

Iain Hughes, 42, a crew manager at West Midlands Fire Service, disappeared in French waters after pushing off from the Kent coast on the morning of June 20 accompanied by a support boat.

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