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British adventurer finally gets OK from France to swim home across the Channel and finish his 36,000-mile round-the-world odyssey 28 years after he started

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Karl Bushby, 57, was earlier refused consent to swim home by the French Coast Guard, prompting jokes that he was the only man they would not let across the water.

First report: Adventurer Karl Bushby names date for Channel swim — bbc.co.uk, 10d