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Kidnapped cruising sailors sell their story for pounds500,000

10:40 PM Tue 23 Nov 2010 GMT

'Now for the media deal - Chandlers arriving at Heathrow Airport after their flight home from Kenya' .

With a reputed ?620,000 (approx $980,000) paid out to secure their release from Somali pirates who kept them hostage for over a year, Paul and Rachel Chandler have sold their exclusive story to a media organisation for an estimated ?500,000 (approx $790,000). Their international cruising plans on their yacht Lynn Rival, which had taken them from Britain to the Seychelles, were foiled by the kidnap The couple had been renting out their home in Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, during their sailing journey, but it is not known whether they will return to Kent. One piece of good news is that ...

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