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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Anna Fazackerley in Falmouth. Photographs by Luke Gartside

‘Water just makes you feel better’: the Cornish angling club that’s not about catching fish

A man with his back to the camera holds a fishing rod over the side of a pier.
One fisher is still casting as it begins to grow dark. Photograph: Luke Gartside/The Guardian

When Justin Keight saw two ambulances outside his best friend’s house one morning during the Covid lockdown, he knew instantly what it meant. His friend, who was married with children, had lived with depression.

“The day before he killed himself he told me he was really struggling,” he says. Keight urged him to stay the night and talk, but his friend did not want to break the social distancing rules.

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