Adventurer finishes 203-mile River Thames swim
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A lawyer became the first person to swim the length of Britain's famous River Thames, taking nearly three weeks to complete his journey.
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The Tour de France starts in London with 189 riders riding 203 km to Kent in the race's first leg.
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LONDON - A retired Connecticut pilot has become the oldest person to swim the English Channel. George Brunstad, 70, left Dover, England, Saturday morning heading for the French Coast...
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Twenty crew have been rescued from a ship which is listing in the Channel about 35 miles off the Devon coast.
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A Scottish man has become the fastest to cycle around the world, completing the trip in 195 days and six hours
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Travel: Rosemary Mahoney describes the freedom and fears she encountered on her great river adventure
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Eurostar set a new Paris to London rail  speed record of just over two hours on Tuesday with the first  train to use Britain's long-awaited high speed track at around  320 kilometers (about 199 miles) per hour.
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A diver whose disappearance sparked a three-day search off Guernsey had actually taken a ferry to the UK.
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The coveted title of World Champion Bog Snorkeller went for the third year in a row to a 17-year-old Welsh student who saw off 140-odd competitors at one of Britain's more unusual sporting events on Monday.
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A retired Connecticut pilot has become the oldest person to swim the English Channel. George Brunstad, 70, left Dover, England, Saturday morning heading for the French Coast. He finished shortly after midnight, said Mike Oram of the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation.
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The 60-foot yacht of a British sailor competing in an around-the-world race nearly capsized Thursday in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean.
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Emergency services evacuated hundreds of homes in the university city of Oxford on Wednesday as the River Thames broke its banks and Britain grappled with its worst floods in 60 years.
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A pleasure boat which struck an object on the River Thames is saved from sinking by emergency crews.
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A massive clear-up is taking place after flooding damage estimated at hundreds of millions of pounds.
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Parts of the Thames expected to swell further, says Hilary Benn, as man drowns after plunge.
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Â· Canadian considered eating own leg to survive Â· Chance rescue by hiker ended 96-hour ordeal
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ANGLERS on the Dee received a boost this week when 3,000 breamwere released into the river.   The fish had been shipped up to Farndon, near Wrexham, from the Environment Agency's fish farmat Calverton, Nottinghamshire.