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Gamekeeper

Alan Edwards is conservation manager at Bywell, a Purdey Gold Award estate in Northumberland

The crash of ice-cold water made me focus on my foothold. It was near midnight and the North Sea was throwing its best at the rocks exposed for a short while over low water on the Northumbrian coastline. We held our rods aloft anxiously as we awaited the telltale tug that

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