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The seaside town of Amble is cold, grey and run down.
So when a wild dolphin appears, it's the miracle everyone's been waiting for.
Breakfast time, dinner time, evening meal time.
And in the pool.
Freddy.
Freddy.
Freddie.
Some believe Freddy has healing powers, others that he's an alien.
Everyone wants to swim with him, but Freddie chooses one person above all others.
It was brilliant.
He just came over alongside him and he was just banging into me and you know, hello, I'm Freddie, the famous dolphin.
Who the hell are you?
Alan Cooper, a passionate animal rights activist who loves swimming with Freddie.
I was just out of this world, you know.
Little did I know what was.
But one day, Alan is accused of taking things way, way too far.
Someone put a newspaper under my nose.
Saying, have you seen this?
A tabloid scandal leads to a court battle that grips the whole country.
That Alan Cooper committed an act of a lewd, obscene and disgusting nature and outraged public decency by behaving in an indecent manner with a bottlenose dolphin.