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originally planned to start his
swim to Calais. He went
down the garden one
afternoon to talk to Lieva,
who keeps bees, picked up a
bit of honeycomb and was
stung on the forehead. He
then ran across the lawn to
escape ‘a particularly
persistent bee’, fell over and
ended up paralysed from the
neck down. Andy had
surgery, with his vertebrae
realigned and fixed with a