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A fishing boat skipper was ordered to pay almost £27,000 after sailing the wrong way along a shipping lane. Simon Hughes, from Marden, was caught several times travelling in the incorrect direction within a Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) on the Dover Strait on September 14 2022. With more than 400 commercial vessels using the Dover Strait daily, the TSS separates ships into two lanes for inward and outward-bound traffic. HM Coastguard officers made repeated attempts to contact the 65-year-old sailor, first by radio and then by a rogue vessel warning broadcast to ships within the TSS. Finally,…

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