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An angler died after being swept into the sea at a popular fishing spot in Redcar. The 46-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene despite the best efforts of emergency services on Sunday. The Redcar RNLI lifeboat was tasked at 4.46pm after reports that the fisherman had been washed into the sea at the South Gare lighthouse. Crews were …

An inquest has heard details of the moment a Derbyshire man drowned after falling from a rowing boat into a lake while on holiday in France. Frank Cuomo, of Church Broughton, Derbyshire, died in October last year while on a fishing trip with his loved ones just weeks after his 63rd birthday. No exact details of the location was given …

An inquest is set to be held into the death of an angler whose body was found in the River Dove. The body of Roger Wheat, who was in his 70s, was found in the River Dove on the afternoon of Friday, January 10. Emergency services had carried out a three-day search for Mr Wheat, who was last seen fishing …

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Fishing will become the first sport to resume competitive action during the coronavirus pandemic, Telegraph Sport can reveal. Having also been in the first cluster of sports to return on a recreational basis, the Angling Trust have confirmed that their “robust new best practice guidelines” have been agreed by Government and that competitions can begin immediately. Although elite professional sports …

These pictures show divers heading into the River Dove to search for a missing angler. Roger Wheat has been missing since Tuesday, January 7. He was last seen fishing on the riverbank near Ellastone Bridge on the River Dove, in Ellastone. On Wednesday, January 8 divers searched the water, a boat headed along the river and others walked along the …

A teenager who boasted after beating an angler to death with a plank of wood on a summer fishing trip has been found dead in his prison cell. Lenny Crawt was just 16 when Scott Wilkinson, 48, was murdered on a small island in the Thames in Surrey in July 2016. He and his brother Shane, then 17, were jailed …

Bailiffs who track down poachers are being equipped with stab vests as a rising tide of organised crime hits the country’s rivers and lakes. Volunteers more used to netting small-fry thieves and anglers without licences are even getting martial arts training as they try to stop gangs stealing fish worth tens of thousands of pounds to sell on the black …

But the Barrow development was never completed and the site, owned by Lodge Inns (Pendle) Ltd, was taken on under receivership last month and is now up for sale. Now land agents Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has brought the site just outside Clitheroe town to market, with approved planning permission for a change of use to a leisure park. Pendle …

The body of a man, believed to be that of missing angler Roger Wheat, has been found by police. Officers have called off the search for Roger Wheat, who was last seen in Ellastone on Tuesday, January 7, following the discovery of a body this afternoon. He was last seen fishing near the bank of the River Dove. Staffordshire Search …