Bernard Le Tourneur is reunited with a Loggerhead Turtle he rescued from a beach in Jersey, after he found it stranded in seaweed more than 50 years ago. Mr Le Tourneur, 71, *..said it was like meeting an old friend as he fed the Loggerhead turtle chunks of squid at the country's oldest aquarium, in Brighton. The reunion came 53 years after Mr Le Tourneur found the tiny baby turtle while gathering seaweed with his father on the beach at Jersey for the family farm, on November 19 1950.

Bernard Le Tourneur is reunited with a Loggerhead Turtle he rescued from a beach in Jersey, after he found it stranded in seaweed more than 50 years ago. Mr Le Tourneur, 71, *..said it was like meeting an old friend as he fed the Loggerhead turtle chunks of squid at the country's oldest aquarium, in Brighton. The reunion came 53 years after Mr Le Tourneur found the tiny baby turtle while gathering seaweed with his father on the beach at Jersey for the family farm, on November 19 1950. Stock Photo
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PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo

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1063 x 1870 px | 18 x 31.7 cm | 7.1 x 12.5 inches | 150dpi

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22 May 2003

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Brighton England

Photographer:

Gareth Fuller

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Bernard Le Tourneur Turtle Reunion

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