Do the pirates still exist?

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The bloke was a senior director of a £120m turnover company & not given to telling those sort of porkies. When he called me into the office as soon as he arrived on the following monday morning he was clearly shaken by it all.
It was not the sort of " once upon a time" story one sometimes gets

Any clue in your user name?

If for real, I would have expected it to have been well publicised locally?

But back to topic; I assume the East Coat Pirates - as was is now defunct? Pity!