Bank Holiday Monday on Seaford beach was enlivened by a fire on a motorboat, which exploded and sank off Splash Point. The and the Newhaven lifeboat was called out and the one man who had been on board rescued . This has variously been reported as happening 'off Beachy Head' (that night's BBC local television news) or 'off Newhaven' in the next day's Guardian. I'm the first to acknowledge Seaford's obscurity, but even so...
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