The search and rescue operation for Iain Hughes, a firefighter raising money for charity by swimming across the English Channel, was called off last week.
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The search for a cross-Channel swimmer who disappeared as he approached the French coast after ten hours in the water was called off after no trace could be found. Iain Hughes, 42, a firefighter from Kingswinford, West Midlands, was being escorted by boat from the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federat