Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The link appears to be broken but police believe there is no connection with the body that they found and two others nearby.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
Arte et Marte
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,888
Not a good New Year's start for those who have to retrieve the bodies or the families involved.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
very sad start to the year
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,552
Is one of the fishermen still missing from before Christmas?
I would think that the tides wouldn't wash a body towards Dover?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I believe they were twins and some are inseparable in life and ultimately death. Someone elsewhere said that Beachy Head had people looking out for potential suicides and the number of jumpers were decreasing, food for thought.
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,938
What torment they must have been suffering, if it was deliberate, so sad. RIP.
I note the Daily Star published the wrong cliff pictures....sloppy reporting!
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/574480/three-bodies-found-Dover-cliffs-Kent-PoliceDo nothing and nothing happens.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
yes bob,the 7 sisters/beachy head cliffs.they a photo of the actull not so white cliffs of dover
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Cast your mind back Brian to those halcyon days when the nation's tabloid press discovered the same photo on the Town Council website, cue the White Cliffs of Sussex joke doing the rounds soon after. They then compounded the felony by asking people to send in their best ones of our white cliffs.
Mr Newsam who is an active member of the snappers union pointed that many photographers were incensed that they were expected to work for free whilst the Town Council paid all their other suppliers, rather a good point I thought.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
got ya
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,138
howard mcsweeney1 wrote: Someone elsewhere said that Beachy Head had people looking out for potential suicides and the number of jumpers were decreasing, food for thought.
Beachy Head Chaplaincy. Excellent crowd and well worth following on the Twitter as they post lovely atmospheric piccies of the area
https://twitter.com/BHChaplaincy
The team is made up largely of volunteers, who are all Christians and active members of local church congregations. As a Search and Rescue unit they are reputedly the busiest in the UK averaging over 760 searches resulting in over 270 rescues each year since 2009.
(Reminds me of adolescence, being interrupted by a call from a Father when thinking of tossing yourself off?)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
One of the victims had served in the Gulf war and was campaigning against racism in the armed forces. We will probably never know whether bullying or PTSD led to the state of mind he was in.
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Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
- Posts: 393
Or it could have been a number of other reasons?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,138
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:One of the victims had served in the Gulf war and was campaigning against racism in the armed forces. We will probably never know whether bullying or PTSD led to the state of mind he was in.
Interestingly worldwide we have fewer people dying each year from war [U]and[/U] crime together than either suicide [U]or[/U] car accidents.
In spite of the headlines the world is safer and more peaceful than it has ever been.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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