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shoulders are ‘shot to
pieces’), and won’t give
interviews. But her mother,
Freda Streeter, describes her
Thames triumph: ‘in 1985
Alison was raising money to
swim from Ireland to
Scotland but the weather was
atrocious and she didn’t do it,
so she did the Thames from
Richmond to Gravesend. The
PLA said the swim couldn’t
be done, and not by a woman.
We found a Thames

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