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If you're new to wild swimming then you need to know how to stay safe in open water. During the first heatwave of every summer people rush to cool off in the nearest open water, a phenomenon that’s ...

Along Britain’s sea coasts, an iconic summertime scene unfolds in outdoor pools known as lidos, where the swimming area is ...

Preparing to jump out of the second-floor window and into the river below, I felt the acute sense that my anxiety was about to be washed away. It was a balmy July day in perhaps the most ...

For years now I’ve been haunted by salad. Not by triffid-like radicchio at my window, or the coiled green caterpillar I once found at the heart of a lettuce, but by packets of wild rocket. What ...

Georgios Efthimiou does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The mere mention of California conjures up visions of golden sandy beaches and crashing waves. Spanning 840 miles, the picturesque coastline is a mecca for surfers, sunbathers and just about everyone ...

Primrose Freestone, senior lecturer in clinical microbiology at the University of Leicester looks at the growing trend of wild swimmining and whether fears of germs and unwanted bacteria are founded.