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The former Deputy PM cared deeply about the environment and ocean protection, as he demonstrated on trip to the Maldives for a BBC report on coral bleaching in 1999, recalls journalist Roger Harrabin
He was the antithesis of the stereotype environmentalist - abrasive, domineering, working class, Northern - but John Prescott, who sadly died last week at the age of 86, really cared about the environment....
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