Briton dies after trying to swim the Channel
A Britishman died in a French hospital after fallingillwhile swimming acrossthe Channel from Doverin southern England, police said The man, in his forties, arrivedin the northern portcityofCalais shortly before midnight, brought in by a safety boat that was travelling alongside him, a police spokesman said. His heart hadstopped and he was in a state of cardio-respiratory arrest when the emergency services took him to hospital Despite attempts torevive him,the man died shortly before 3am In July 2013, a British womanin her 30sdiedina Boulogne hospitalafter trying to swim the Channel to raise money for charity.