The Wave Project in Newquay is saving young people's lives through the power of the sea The charity can only help 2,500 people a year nationally but wants to do so much more For many years growing up as a child with Down Syndrome in West Cornwall, Rory suffered from relentless bullying and exclusion. To his mum's own admission, Rory was "broken". It was the healing power of the ocean which brought him back. "The abuse that has happened to Rory is not for describing here as it was relentless until