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Tributes paid to swimmer: 'Our family is heartbroken'

Scottish Daily Express

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December 27, 2025

TRIBUTES have been paid to one of two men who are missing after a Christmas Day swim.

- BY HELEN WILLIAM

The family of Matthew Upham, 63, below, said that he was “deeply loved and forever missed”.

Emergency services were called to Budleigh Salterton, in Devon, at 10.25am on Thursday after concerns for people in the sea.

A number were safely helped to shore and checked by paramedics or taken to hospital as a precaution. But two men, aged in their 40s and 60s, were not located.

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