03-07-2025
Member of House of Lords' body pulled from river after he was seen swimming in water
THE body of a member of the House of Lords has been recovered from a river after he was last seen swimming in the water.
Police had received a report for concern of the safety of a man last seen in the River Wye in Glasbury, Wales, on July 1.
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An extensive search was then launched, eventually resulting in a body being recovered from the river.
This body has now been identified as that of Lord David Lipsey, Dyfed Powys Police said.
Lord Lipsey previously worked as a journalist and as a Downing Street adviser under Labour prime minister James Callaghan in the late 1970s.
He then entered the House of Lords in 1999, created a Life peer as Baron Lipsey of Tooting Bec in London.
While in the Lords, he sat on the Labour benches.
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