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Major relief

Sunday 13 June 1993 23:02 BST
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Peter Viggers, 55, Tory MP for Gosport, Hampshire, who nearly drowned when he fell overboard during a yacht race round the Isle of Wight, said of his ordeal: 'All I could do was shut my eyes and think of John Major.'

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