British Woman Dies While Attempting to Swim Across the English Channel for Charity
A British woman has died as she tried to swim across the English Channel to raise money for sick children.
Susan Taylor, a 34-year-old accountant from Barwell, Leicestershire, was just a mile from the coast of France when she became ill on Sunday afternoon. A French navy helicopter flew her to hospital in Boulogne-sur-Mer but she was declared dead at around 7pm.
Ms Taylor had set off from the UK in the early hours of Sunday morning and was raising money for Diabetes UK and the Rainbows Children’s Hospice in Loughborough.
She was swimming alongside a support boat and had temporarily given up her office job to train for the gruelling 21-mile swim across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
But as she entered Wissant Bay, near Cap Gris-Nez, she got into ‘serious difficulty’, said a French police source.
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Susan Taylor, a 34-year-old accountant from Barwell, Leicestershire, was just a mile from the coast of France when she became ill on Sunday afternoon. A French navy helicopter flew her to hospital in Boulogne-sur-Mer but she was declared dead at around 7pm.
Ms Taylor had set off from the UK in the early hours of Sunday morning and was raising money for Diabetes UK and the Rainbows Children’s Hospice in Loughborough.
She was swimming alongside a support boat and had temporarily given up her office job to train for the gruelling 21-mile swim across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
But as she entered Wissant Bay, near Cap Gris-Nez, she got into ‘serious difficulty’, said a French police source.
Read more HERE
British Woman Dies While Attempting to Swim Across the English Channel for Charity
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