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Charlie Southcott: Kid Disaster-Fixer

  • April 6, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

After a Christmas 2013 landslide wrecked a road in the English town of Calstock, about 45 cars were stranded by the river that runs through town. But thanks to an idea from Charlie Southcott, age 10, the Royal Marines put the cars on a landing craft and floated them to their owners downriver.

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