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| Massive search for missing angler | Massive search for missing angler |
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| An angler who has been missing off the Dorset coast since the early hours of Sunday has been named by police. | An angler who has been missing off the Dorset coast since the early hours of Sunday has been named by police. |
| Lee Richmond, 23, from Tonyrefail, south Wales was fishing with a group of 12 anglers near Ferrybridge on Chesil beach when he went missing. | Lee Richmond, 23, from Tonyrefail, south Wales was fishing with a group of 12 anglers near Ferrybridge on Chesil beach when he went missing. |
| Despite a massive search by the Coastguard helicopter, Weymouth RNLI lifeboat and inshore lifeboat and shore line rescue team nothing was found. | Despite a massive search by the Coastguard helicopter, Weymouth RNLI lifeboat and inshore lifeboat and shore line rescue team nothing was found. |
| Portland Coastguard said the incident had now been handed to Dorset Police. | Portland Coastguard said the incident had now been handed to Dorset Police. |
| Officers said one of the anglers had made a 999 call just after 0300 BST saying one of their group had not been seen for 20 minutes. | |
| "There has been no sign of the man so far," said a police spokesman. | |
| The pebble Chesil Beach is 18 miles long, and stretches from Portland to West Bay in the centre of the Jurassic Coast. |