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Video: Quadriplegic sailor completes record-breaking voyage

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Watch our video report of
Hilary Lister's homecoming

by Chris Denham

Hilary Lister has sailed into Dover to become the first
quadriplegic woman to sail solo around Britain.

The 36-year-old from Dunkirk, near Canterbury arrived back on
Monday and was back at the port on Tuesday to meet many of the
people who have supported her - from her land crew, to those on the
safety boat, Kent County Council and the Lions Club, of which she
is a proud member.

Trying to describe her feelings, she said: "This is the only way
I know how to sail. It's just the most amazing feeling, you can go
anywhere, I can't move a metre on land without someone helping, but
in a boat..."

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