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The most widelY readstories at rt'vl"w. getsrrrrey.

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Callumprepares

for anoarsomechallengeAN East HorsleY teenager is

taking on an Atlantic worldrecord rowing attemPt in aidof a hospice which cared forhis father.

First year universiry stu-

dent Callum Gathercole, 19,

and his uni friend, IaY

Olenicz, 19, n'ill attemPt tolor,r' 3,000 miles from theCanary Islands to Antigua as

part of the 2015 Talisker\\4riskey Atlantic Challenge.

The friends met at BristolUniversity, where theY arepart of the rowing team andtrain twice a day, six daYs a

week.Now they are hoPing to be-

come the youngest pair tocomplete the Atlantic race'

"I have been thinkingabout it for quite a whilei'said Callum, who is also a GB

junior rower."lt is one of the things I

have always rvanted to do."The plan originally was to

do it once I finished mY de-gree, but I thought I could fe-alistically take mY third Yearout and try to get a worldrecord. It is going to be reallYhard, but I am verY enthusi-astic about taking it on. Itcould take up to 90 days.

"Some guYs who have

done it in the Past hit weatherso bad theY were driftingbackwards for weeks. It is

quite common for comPeti-tors to retire in the first fewdays hecause theY are iustnot used to the weather."

Callum, who rows at

Walton rowing club, said heand ]ay will have to get some

TerryHabgoodsAr4rm2experience rowing in the sea,

and make sure they knowevery inch of their boat.

The former George AbbotSchool pupil said some cross-ings had failed because theboat's water decontaminatorhad stopped working and theteam did not know how to fixit.

"We are raising moneY forthree charities, the PrincessAlice Hospice, BraceAlzheimer's charity, andBrain Tumour Research]'Callum said.

"I chose the Ptincess AliceHospice as my dad died thereafter he had a brain tumour',and he was looked after real1Y

Callum Gathercole: 'I am certainly not one to giue up'

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rvell. They are rvhollY fundedby donations. We rvill be suP-porting Bl'ace because laY'sgrandparents suffered fromAlzheimer's.

"Brain Tumour Research is

horrifically underfunded andit does a lot of goodresearch."

they will take it in turns torow, tlvo hours on and nvohours off, when theY take onthe challenge over Christmasnext year.

Callum, who is studYing

aerospace engineering, said

family and friends were sceP-

tical at first, asking him if itwas a joke. But now he andjay have officiallY signed uP,

disbelief has turned to aPPre-hension.

Callum's girlfriend aclmits

to being a bit worried, desPitehis reassurances.

The boat rvill ha"'e a GPS

tracker attd race organisersivill track then-r.

thel uill be equiPPed rvitha satellite radio, and r'l'ill use

solar energt' ro Polver the GPS.

"l hale seen some videosof people sitting in the cabinrvith reallv harsh u'eather and

it looks irorrendous," Callumadmitred. It is just some-thing \ou ha\e to deal withand get on tith it'

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Contractors clearedof water dumping

PICTURES thought to showcor.mcil contractors dumPinggully water into a steamwere actually workersspraying water to clear anarea, investigators haveconcluded.

Surrey CountY Counciland the EnvironmentAgency launched a ioint in-vustigation after a l;idden

no wrong-doing. In fact, itconcluded that the contrac-tors were cleaning or 'jetting'the stream, which is also a

storm drain, using clean wa-ter from a hose on the tank.

The report concludes:"The investigation fi:llY ac-

cepts the PercePtion causedby cleaning the storm drain.

"Thc drain lcok-s likc a

"There is also no PhYsicalevidence of any other visitsapart from the agreed quar-terly visits."

The visits bY FM ConwaYlorries which do not coin-cide with cleaning migirt belorries discharging excessdrain wate! described as

'normal practice in thed.r':rinagc ilclusLrr l