Baltazar L’Qui, 14, Chiedza Nyanjowa, 15, Charlie Noble, 16, and David Tita Jr, 17, Credit: Police Scotland/ Merseyside Police A woman in her 60s has died after reportedly entering open water to ...

A 15-year-old girl has died in a water-related incident during the heatwave. Chiedza Nyanjowa, from Cheshire, was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital after getting into difficulty while swimming on ...

Charlie Noble and Chiedza Nyanjowa are the latest to be named among a string of deaths linked to swimming in open water during the May heatwave. Credit: Police Scotland/Merseyside Police The body of a ...

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Four teenagers have drowned and a 60-year-old man has died in separate open water incidents across the UK over the bank holiday weekend. With temperatures soaring past 30C, police in Lincolnshire, ...

Even the strongest swimmers must realise all open water beauty spots can be "death traps" and nobody should risk their lives, a woman who lost her son has warned. Rebecca Ramsay, whose son Dylan ...

An adventure centre in East Yorkshire has issued a warning about the dangers of mixing open water swimming with alcohol. Welton Waters Activities Centre, near Brough, said groups of young people had ...

PARIS (AP) — Tennis players at the French Open say they haven't experienced conditions this hot at Roland Garros since the Paris Olympics. And the 2024 Olympics ...

If sunken e-bikes, raw sewage and dangerous tides are the first things that come to mind when you think of London’s mighty Thames, well, we wouldn’t blame you. But it turns out that not all of the ...

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Across the UK, a quiet shift in midlife exercise is underway. A decade ago, the cultural image of midlife fitness was the Lycra-clad cyclist speeding along suburban roads. Now, a different scene has ...

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