The sad story of the footballer, the yacht and the helicopter

11:31 PM Tue 8 Jun 2010 GMT

'cold waters of Loch Long - the scene of the incident' .

Sometimes it's just one of those days.... Imagine this: It's early morning and you slip out of bed to peer out the window of your treasured holiday house, which looks over the splendid Loch Long in Argyll in Scotland, and over your lovely yacht, moored at the bottom of the garden. ...but this morning something doesn't look quite right. The yacht is gone! So, not quite awake yet, but mad as a hornet, you stumble out to your helicopter parked nearby, no time for coffee, and get it started. You're going to find the yacht - did it drift away ...

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by Nancy Knudsen