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Britain’s first competitive woman surfer is still catching waves – six decades after taking to the sea.

Gwyn Haslock, 68, first headed into the swell in 1950s as a seven-year-old girl, using a solid wooden bellyboard and a woolly jumper for a wetsuit.

In the 1960s, she was the first British woman to use a proper fibre-glass board to surf standing up – and the only female to enter the country’s earliest surfing competitions   …  More

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