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People landing

196858 years agoCategoriesKent, St Margaret's Bay

Police rushed to St. Margaret’s Bay after a member of the public reported people being landed from a large white yacht. But they were not illegal immigrants or smugglers. The men in the rowing boat were from the GPO cable-laying ship working on a new cross-Channel link.

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