FRIENDS of a former boxing champion from York, who died while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, have raised thousands of pounds to help try to bring him home.

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• POLICE and firefighters have been called to a crash in a York village.

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  Bob Atkinson’s family hopes to raise the £35,000 needed to get him home, as well as an additional £40,000 to cover his medical bills.