Greenpeace launches Rainbow Warrior III with help of Glastonbury founder

Glastonbury festival owner Michael Eavis joins maiden voyage on the river Thames of environmental group's third flagshipMichael Eavis first went to sea in 1951, when he was a 15-year-old farmer's son from an undistinguished village near Glastonbury. The death of his father four years later brought an end to his career as a sailor, however, and he returned to manage the dairy herd and, almost by accident years later, to found Europe's biggest music festival.He has never lost his sea legs, however...

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