CLIFF HERO 'HOUNDED' Rescuer quits over criticism.Byline: By JEREMY ARMSTRONG A MIRROR Pride of Britain winner who saved a girl of 13 as she dangled from a clifftop has been "hounded" out of his job for breaking safety rules. Volunteer coastguard Paul Waugh, 44, did not go back for ropes but instead hung on to Faye Harrison with his arms as she clung clung v. Past tense and past participle of cling. clung Verb the past of cling clung cling on to a 300ft cliff by her fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . A helicopter plucked pluck v. plucked, pluck·ing, plucks v.tr. 1. To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick: pluck a flower; pluck feathers from a chicken. them to safety. He was hailed a hero but faced a health and safety probe. Paul, who had been in the job for 13 years, has quit because of the stress. He said yesterday: "I am sorry because it is a job I always loved, but enough is enough. It is yet another example of our health and safety culture gone mad." Faye, rescued at Brotton, Cleveland, last January, said: "I am disgusted. If Paul hadn't been brave I don't think I would be here today." Dad-of-three Paul, of nearby Skelton Green, said: "I could see the face of this little girl pleading with me to save her. "If I had not got down to her and she fell to her death it would have haunted me." The Coastguard Agency said: "We aren't looking for dead heroes." jeremy.armstrong @mirror.co.uk CAPTION(S): ANGRY: Paul Waugh |
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