Steve Feltham

I’ve spent my life hunting the Loch Ness Monster

I had no choice but to try

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Monks from Fort Augustus Abbey fishing on Loch Ness in 1935. According to the biography of St Columba from 565 AD, the saint stopped the monster from eating a pict (Getty Images)
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