"and download. The third single ""Surrendered"", was released on 26 February 2007, on CD and download. All tracks written by: Chesters, Devlin, Morriss, Morriss: The song ""Fade In/Fade Out"" was written in honour of British comedian (and star of ""Little Britain"") David Walliams, a personal friend of Mark Morriss, who swam the English Channel for Sport Relief in 2006. The Bluetones (album) The Bluetones is the fifth album by the eponymous band, released on 9 October 2006. The album sees the band reunite with producer Hugh Jones, who was at the controls for the band's first two albums, ""Expecting to"
"of the Sport Relief telethon in 2012, co-hosting the 22:00–22:40 slot with Miranda Hart when the show moved over to BBC Two while the BBC News at Ten was aired. Walliams also co-hosted the 2014 Sport Relief telethon. This time, he hosted the earlier slot between 19:00–22:00 with Gary Lineker and later Davina McCall. On 4 July 2006 Walliams swam the English Channel for Sport Relief. It took him 10 hours and 34 minutes to swim the 22-mile (35 km) stretch of sea, equivalent to 700 lengths of an Olympic-size swimming pool. This was wrongly reported as one of the"
"UK was 'Little Britain's Big Swim' which featured David Walliams swimming the English Channel. Daffyd Thomas's song ""I'm Gay"" was recorded in a studio and released as an Internet-only single on the UK and Australian iTunes Stores. This is a night of ""Little Britain Live"" with celebrity guests such as Kate Moss and Peter Kay. £3 from each DVD sale goes to Comic Relief. A live ""Little Britain"" show was made for Comic Relief at the Hammersmith Apollo on 22 November 2006, and featured many guest artists and celebrities. This version was released in March 2007 and televised as part"
"Bill Borger Bill Borger Jr. (born December 15, 1974) is a Calgary-based businessman, adventurer, and Canadian Chartered Accountant. On September 9, 2000 Borger became the first Calgarian to successfully swim the English Channel. As a part of the English Channel swim Borger raised $100,000 for the Canadian Mental Health Association. On May 11, 2011 Borger became the first Canadian to have both swum the English Channel and to have climbed Mt. Everest. The Mt. Everest climb was used to raise funds for the Calgary Handibus Association; for this charity Borger raised $400,000. Borger's website states, as of June 6, 2011"
"drama, along with his achievements in international charity work. Articles Lenny Henry Sir Lenworth George Henry (born 29 August 1958) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer, and television presenter, known for co-founding the charity Comic Relief, and presenting various television programmes, including the comedy ""Chef!"" and ""The Magicians"" for BBC One. He is currently the Chancellor of Birmingham City University. Lenny Henry was born at Burton Road Hospital in Dudley, on 29 August 1958, the son of Jamaican immigrants to Great Britain. One of seven children, he was the first to be born in the United Kingdom. He"
"in order to raise money for Comic Relief. His boat ""Lillibet"" is now in the collection of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. The record had stood for 383 years, having been set in 1619 by John Taylor, a Jacobean poet and Queen's Waterman. His second such feat was being the first person to row a bathtub across the English Channel. His first attempt was in 2004 for Sport Relief, when he tried to row from France to Tower Bridge, London in a bathtub made by Thomas Crapper and Co. Ltd, named ""Lilibet II"", after the childhood nickname of Queen Elizabeth"
"swimming from the Tarifa islands in Spain to shores of Morocco- a total distance of twenty two kilometers- in just about four hours and twenty minutes. In his later life, Masudur was diagnosed with anemia and owing to his limbs becoming increasingly crippled; he died on 26 April 2015 at a hospital in Kolkata, aged 46. Handicap swimmer Masudur Rahman Baidya a double amputee below the knee who won the English Channel, today found a devotee in none other than Indian sporting icon cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. The Indian icon had visited him in December last year while inaugurating Rabindra"
"""Strictly Come Dancing"" (filmed on ""The Live Tour"" on Saturday 6 February) aired as well as ""Let's Dance for Sport Relief"". On CBBC there were special shows dedicated to Sport Relief including a special edition of ""Dani's House"" and Paddy McGuiness hosted a new series, ""Sport Relief does We Are the Champions"". The total raised on the night of broadcast was £31,633,091. James Corden also performed various comedy sketches with British Athletes like Andy Murray (tennis), David Beckham (football) and Tom Daley (diving). Lawrence Dallaglio embarked on a gruelling cycle from Rome to Edinburgh during the RBS 6 Nations Championship"
"Lance Percival John Lancelot Blades Percival (26 July 1933 – 6 January 2015), known as Lance Percival, was an English actor, comedian and singer, best known for his appearances in satirical comedy television shows of the early 1960s and his ability to improvise comic calypsos about current news stories. He later became successful as an after-dinner speaker. He was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, and was educated at Sherborne School in Sherborne, Dorset, where he learnt to play the guitar. He then did national service with the Seaforth Highlanders as a lieutenant and was posted to Egypt. In 1955 he emigrated"
"Channel"". As of 2006 Murphy still worked as an ITN journalist. In 2008 he appeared on ""The Great British Body"" where he was chosen to represent the British male because of his extraordinary achievements. In 2009, Murphy was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Kevin Murphy (swimmer) Kevin Murphy (born 1949) has swum the English Channel 34 times, more than any other man in history. The overall title of greatest number of successful English Channel swims is held by Alison Streeter with 43 to her name. Murphy's total of 34 includes three double-channel swims. He also holds the"
"Through Hell and High Water Through Hell and High Water is a BBC television programme produced by Twofour that aired in the United Kingdom on 1317 February 2006. Five half-hour morning programmes (9:3010am) on BBC1 followed James Cracknell (Olympic rower) and Ben Fogle (television presenter) in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in """"Spirit of EDF Energy"""", a 24-foot rowing boat, with a half-hour summary programme during the evening of the final day on BBC2. Cracknell and Fogle were competing in the 20052006 Atlantic Rowing Race. They were the third boat (two fours boats finished ahead of them) and"
"in Russian waters without official permission. Croizon has a customised electric wheelchair that cost €24,000 to build. In August 2013 it was stolen, but recovered a few days later after much publicity in the media and on Twitter. Philippe Croizon Philippe Croizon (born 1968) is a French athlete and the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel. His amputations were required due to a severe electric shock accident which occurred in March 1994. At the time, Croizon was employed as a steelworker at the foundry of Poitou, 26 years old and married, with one son; his wife was"
"five other celebrities: Suzi Perry, Doon Mackichan, Angellica Bell, Hal Cruttenden and Ore Oduba sailed 1,000 miles from Belfast to London. During the Sport Relief telethon, it was announced the team had raised £1,062,868. Alex Jones (Welsh presenter) Charlotte Alexandra Jones (born 18 March 1977) is a Welsh television presenter, best known for co-presenting the BBC One magazine programme ""The One Show"" with Matt Baker. She has also presented ""Tumble"" (2014), ""Close Calls: On Camera"" (2015–2016) and ""Shop Well for Less?"" (2016–present). Jones was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, and has a younger sister Jennie. Her first language at home was"
"Lenny Henry Sir Lenworth George Henry (born 29 August 1958) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer, and television presenter, known for co-founding the charity Comic Relief, and presenting various television programmes, including the comedy ""Chef!"" and ""The Magicians"" for BBC One. He is currently the Chancellor of Birmingham City University. Lenny Henry was born at Burton Road Hospital in Dudley, on 29 August 1958, the son of Jamaican immigrants to Great Britain. One of seven children, he was the first to be born in the United Kingdom. He attended St John's Primary School and later The Blue Coat"
"Tim FitzHigham Tim FitzHigham FRSA FRGS, an award-winning British comedian, author, artist and world record holder. The feats he has performed include paddling a paper boat down 160 miles of the River Thames, rowing a bathtub across the English Channel, and inflating the world's largest man-inflated balloon. FitzHigham began telling funny stories in a rum shop in the West Indies while working as a pig and nutmeg farmer; this may have been the beginnings of his work as a stand-up comedian. Back in the UK in 1999, he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with James Cary and Jonny Saunders"
"Karen Gaffney Karen Gaffney is the president of the Karen Gaffney Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon ""dedicated to championing the journey to full inclusion for people with Down Syndrome and other disabilities."" In 2001, she became the first person with Down syndrome to complete a relay swim of the English Channel. Her 2007 swim across the nine mile span of Lake Tahoe became the subject of the documentary ""Crossing Tahoe: A Swimmer's Dream"". In 2009, she swam across Boston Harbor, a distance of five miles, to celebrate Down Syndrome Month in Massachusetts. She has also earned two"
"Lambert and John Humphrys. Petrie has said through Twitter that his girlfriend is French, and that she also appeared in a Comic Relief special starring Kate Moss. He supports Crystal Palace FC. Ed Petrie Edward Oliver James ""Ed"" Petrie (born 22 August 1978) is an English actor, comedian, and television presenter. Petrie was born and raised in Rustington, West Sussex. He was educated at Broadwater Manor in Worthing, West Sussex, and the independent school Ardingly College in Ardingly, West Sussex. Previous presenting work includes hosting various children's programmes, on Nickelodeon, from January 2005 until September 2007, including ""Slime Across the"
"kindly recognised in various ways. These include being a Freeman of the City of London, Freeman of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames, Fellow of the Royal Society of Art, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Commodore of Sudbury Quay, Pittancer of Selby and Most Puissant Knight de Santa Maria. Tim FitzHigham Tim FitzHigham FRSA FRGS, an award-winning British comedian, author, artist and world record holder. The feats he has performed include paddling a paper boat down 160 miles of the River Thames, rowing a bathtub across the English Channel, and inflating the world's largest"
"Taylor MH Mike Taylor (born 1964), also known by the alias Taylor MH, is an English athlete, public speaker, and author from Stourbridge, England. After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the age of 26, he became the first person with MS to successfully swim a relay of the English Channel in 1997. Despite being unable to use his legs, he later completed a swimming relay of Loch Lomond in Scotland, a relay from Majorca to Menorca in the Balearic Islands, and three team relays from Santa Catalina Island to Santa Monica in California. In each case he raised"
"at the age of 97 on 21 February 2008 at Warrington Hospital. Sunny Lowry Ethel ""Sunny"" Lowry MBE (2 January 1911, in Longsight, Manchester, Lancashire – 21 February 2008) was the first British woman to swim the English Channel. (An earlier claim was successfully made by Mercedes Gleitze). Lowry, a student at Manchester High School for Girls and a keen swimmer from a young age, joined the Victoria Ladies Swimming Club of Victoria Baths, Longsight, Manchester. At that time (c. 1920) Victoria Baths only offered single-sex swimming sessions and therefore Sunny was unable to compete against the men. She was"
"2005, Scott joked that the award should stand for ""Mad, Bonkers and Eccentric"". Lloyd Scott Lloyd Scott, MBE (born 13 October 1961) is an English former professional football goalkeeper and now charity fundraiser, best known in the UK for his charity marathons. He is notable for competing in the 2002 London Marathon in a deep-sea diving costume during which he broke the world record for slowest marathon time. The diving suit he wore is now on display at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The number he wore is still attached to the suit on display. On 2 July"
"Westminster, London, and brought up in Wentworth, Surrey, until age twelve, when she and her family moved to Upper Largo, Fife. She studied Drama at Manchester University. Mackichan lived in Clapham, south London, with her three children from a marriage to actor Anthony Barclay, from whom she was divorced in 2005. She now lives in Hastings, East Sussex. Mackichan swam the English Channel in 1998, as part of a six-person relay team. In March 2016, Mackichan was part of a team of celebrities who attempted to sail around a section of the UK in just five days as part of"
"the Australian Trent Grimsey on 8 September 2012, in 6 hours 55 minutes, beating the previous record set in 2007 by Bulgarian swimmer Petar Stoychev. There may have been some unreported swims of the Channel, by people intent on entering Britain in circumvention of immigration controls. A failed attempt to cross the Channel by two Syrian refugees in October 2014 only came to light when their bodies were later discovered on the shores of the North Sea in Norway and the Netherlands. On 16 September 1965, two Amphicars crossed from Dover to Calais. English Channel The English Channel (, ""The"
"eight-hour swim off the coast of Croatia before embarking on the cross-Channel attempt. Walliams has insisted that prior to his challenge he had never seriously taken part in any sport. The Bluetones' lead singer Mark Morriss wrote a song, ""Fade In/Fade Out"", in honour of Walliams' achievement; it can be found on their self-titled album, released on 9 October 2006.. On 7 March 2008 Walliams, along with James Cracknell, swam the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco, again for Sport Relief. He successfully completed the swim in just over 4 hours. In March 2010 Walliams and a group of"
"1961. Brojen was detected to have cancer in June 1997. He went to Calcutta, India, for treatment, and died there on 1 June 1998. His funeral was held at Postagola cremation site in Dhaka on 3 June 1998. Brojen Das Brojen Das (9 December 1927 – 1 June 1998) was a Bengali swimmer, who was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it six times. Brojen was born in the Kuchiamora village of Bikrampur, Bangladesh. His father was Harendra Kumar Das. He completed the matriculation exam in 1946 from KL Jubilee High"
"State Open Championship Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Center Australia 2017 Arabian sea Mumbai 2017 Para – International Swimming Championship Gatineau,Canada 2016 Satendra Singh Lohiya Satendra Singh Lohiya (born 6 July 1987) is an Indian swimmer with 75% disability. On 24 July 2018 he crossed the English Channelas part of a swimming relay team which, for the first time saw four para swimmers from India cross the English Channel. He completed the channel in 12 hours and 26 minutes, setting a new record. Satendra received Vikram Award, the highest state-level sports awards in Madhya Pradesh, for swimming from the Chief Minister"
"due to this neither Mike or Tim have appeared in the TV version of the show. However, backstage after the live show, Tim won a side bet with Horne that he would place in the top three. In 2017 the new comedy project Tim mentored for BBC Radio Norfolk began broadcasting on BBC Radio Suffolk and in November won support from the Director General Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead FitzHigham holds several world records and has achieved many unusual feats. The first was achieved in 2003, when he paddled a paper boat down 160 miles of the River Thames"
"Ross Davenport Ross Paul Davenport (born 23 May 1984) is an English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain in the Olympics, world and European championships, and swam for England in the Commonwealth Games. He won two gold medals in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne for the 200-metre freestyle and the 4×200-metre freestyle relay. On Monday, 27 November 2006 he was recognized as the BBC East Midlands Sports Personality of the Year. He was a member of the University of Bath swimming club, coached by Ian Turner and trains at Loughborough University. Born in Belper, Derbyshire, he now lives"
"English Channel swims - 43 crossings; men's record is 34 held by Kevin Murphy. <br> 1998 Isles of Scilly to Cornwall 1st person 28 miles 15 h 11 min Alison Streeter Alison Jane Streeter MBE (born 1964) is a British long-distance swimmer. She has swum across the English Channel 43 times, more than anyone in the world and earning her the title of Queen of the English Channel. This total includes a triple-channel swim. She also completed seven Channel crossings in one year. She set the female record for a Channel swim from France to England (8 hours 48 minutes),"
"show. The fifth and final day saw Miranda plan a wedding in one day. ""Miranda's Mad March"" raised £1,140,615 for Comic Relief. On Thursday 14 March 2013 at 20:00 GMT, BBC One aired a documentary called ""Comic Relief: Through Hell and High Water"", the programme followed six celebrities as they took part in the Zambezi River challenge. Jack Dee, Dara Ó Briain, Melanie Chisholm, Chelsee Healey, Greg James and Phillips Idowu. The challenge was a bid to raise £1,000,000 for Comic Relief. The total which was announced on 15 March 2013, totalled to £1,196,000 from this challenge alone. Nick Grimshaw"
"Sport Relief 2012 Sport Relief 2012 was a fund raising event organised by Comic Relief. It was broadcast on BBC One and BBC Two on the evening of 23 March 2012 from 7:00 pm to 1:45 am live from the BBC Television Centre. The TV event raised a massive £50,447,197, which is the highest figure ever raised. In the autumn of 2011, David Walliams swam of The Thames in eight days. During the eight days Walliams suffered from illness and flu. Walliams took time to recover after the event due to the intake of Thames water that contained bacteria and"
"particular those wishing to swim the English Channel through her voluntary work with The Channel Swimming association. Julie Bradshaw Julie Bradshaw is a teacher, business motivator, sports coach, swimmer, counsellor (therapist) and a coach of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy and has achieved considerable personal success especially in long distance, English Channel and Marathon swimming, where she currently holds several world records. She first swam the English Channel at the age of 15 and in 2002 did it again using the swimming stroke butterfly, which she completed in 14 hours, 18 minutes. This broke the previous record by"
"Edward Temme Edward Harry Temme (16 September 1904 – 26 June 1977) was an English swimmer and insurance clerk. Temme was the first man to swim across the English Channel both ways, from France to England on 5 August 1927 and from England to France on 18 August 1934. He was also a water polo player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Temme was born in Stratford Road, Plaistow, Essex (now part of east London). He was a member of the British water polo team that finished fourth at the"