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Lauren Potts & Nicole Goodwin

Meet the man who lived remotely off Northumberland coast and left once a week to shower

The Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland is just one of the incredible and unique places Duncan Halpin has been able to call home through his job that allows him to travel to some of the most remote places.

The 33-year-old is one of the National Trust's live-in rangers and has been carrying out conservation work since 2013. His job has taken him to the uninhabited Isle of Noss in Shetland and the Norfolk dunes, where for seven months of the year he lives in a blue, tin-clad box.

Between March and October, he and two assistants hunker down in a former lifeboat house that's a two-hour walk at high tide to the nearest shop.

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