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Matthew Niederhauser reports in The Guardian: Beijing’s National Aquatics Centre, built for the 2008 Olympics, resembles not so much a...

SWIMMING is great for burning calories, improving your muscular infrastructure and helping children sleep reports The Star. Mum Victoria,...

A historic tidal swimming pool in Cornwall has been saved from closure after the local community produced a rescue package to take over...

An endurance swimmer from Hampshire is embarking on a charity challenge around five islands in five months. Anna Wardley, 36, from...

Concerns for wildlife could scupper plans to stage open water swimming in a lake at a nature reserve, reports the Leicester Mercury....

This remarkable woman became famous through her attempts to swim the Channel. Shirley’s story as reported in The Telegraph describes her...

Read this article from The Hindu and see swimming lessons through the eyes of another culture. In Europe and America even babies are...

Anyone swimming in open water faces risk. Surprisingly one of the most dangerous activities we engage in, provide facilities for and...

Hampstead Heath Bathing Pond 100 years of free swimming, then honesty boxes, now compulsory charges. Wild Swimmers on Hampstead Heath...

The Countryside Council for Wales have issued the following: Wild Swimming Code – Consultation Draft The rivers and lakes of Wales are an...

For more than a decade Rob Fryer one of the fore fathers of wild swimming has painstakingly researched, visited and catalogued the best...

You may have heard this story from Canada over the weekend and will be pleased to know that all but one of those affected has now been...

On a sultry summer’s day, what could be more natural and liberating than to dip into a lake or river to complete the picture of scenic...

A shock decision by Birmingham City Council to turn its back on a decades old bylaw prohibiting outdoor swimming in the cities lakes and...

If you are one of the growing number enjoying the fun, freedom and adventure of open water swimming, you may like me, feel that access to...

1962 The local council decided that the former whites only Livingstone swimming baths could now also be used by local people. Determined...

As spring approaches and as the number of outdoor swimmers increases, the Trossachs National Park authority (which takes in 22 lochs and...

Yes it is possible to swim, even in the wintry seas of Britain without feeling the cold. This is a trick well known to swimmers across...

Vital work of the local Community Rescue Service to benefit A 42 year old South African hopes to become the first person to swim between...

I spent the Christmas season with friends in Cornwall, and having sampled the delights of swimming in the wintery seas of St Ives, I...

Make 2012 the year to REMEMBER Look Listen Swim 2012 The 2012 London Olympics will mark 100 years since Frank Sachs published...

The BBC reported yesterday on a life saving project in Bangladesh, inspired and funded by the London 2012 Olympics organisation....

Paul Brown writes in Sundays Guardian: “Wild swimming, whatever the weather, is undergoing a revival in Britain. With the water...

The 2012 London Olympics mark a hundred years since Jennie Fletcher became a legend in her own time. Leicester’s all round swimming...