Maldon: Gay dads rescued from car roof after flood horror (From Maldon and Burnham Standard)
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Maldon: Gay dads rescued from car roof after flood horror
12:00pm Wednesday 10th October 2012 in News By Emma Robinson
The car the men became stuck in in Hurrells Lane, Little Baddow
Maldon's celebrity gay dads thought they were “going to die” after being rescued from the roof of their car when it got stuck in five feet of water.
Tony, 48, and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 43, of Main Road, Danbury, were travelling through a ford near Hurrells Lane, Little Baddow at about 12midnight on Sunday morning when a river bank flooded.
Their Range Rover became submerged before the force of the water spun the car round three times and gushed in, cutting out the electric and trapping them in the vehicle.
The millionaire couple, the first to father surrogate children in the UK, were returning home after attending Essex Fashion Week when they said the water seemed to come out of nowhere.
Tony, who runs the British Surrogacy Centre in Chandlers Quay, Maldon, with Barrie, said: “We got to what should have been just a very easy ford to cross, but just as we got towards it, the river banks broke, and the water just gushed in.
“The water was not there when we first went towards it then suddenly there was this tidal wave that came from nowhere.”
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Comments(4)
e5mitch
says...
1:48am Fri 12 Oct 12
Of course it did.....lol.
& what a pair of drama queens they are, anybody else would have waded to safety & saved the tax payers thousands!!
L2097
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10:08pm Sun 14 Oct 12
How about a donation from them for the all of the services they used to save them getting too wet whilst jumping to the bank?
andypandy1952
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7:00am Wed 17 Oct 12
Regbluebottle says...
7:27pm Wed 10 Oct 12
And they're not from Maldon as the first line of this article suggest.
Sloppy MBS reporting yet again.