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In the dock: Bristol wild swimmers flout harbour ban in fight for city lido

Last modified on Sun 4 Jul 2021 08.41 EDT The emerald-green water in Bristol’s floating harbour shimmers invitingly in the warm morning sunshine. A group of seven swimmers check for signs of the harbour master, then for the third time this summer slip quickly into its cool, refreshing embrace, with delighted gasps and gentle splashes. “It’s so nice. I’m not usually a morning person, but this is like a shot of coffee,” calls Lindsey Cole, 38, before turning and flicking her mermaid tail to break the mirror-flat surface. Cole and others are not there just for pleasure though: they are deliberately flouting bylaws that prohibit swimming in the docks as part of a mild-mannered civil disobedience campaign aimed at securing public access to urban waterways in the city.

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Mermaid who swam Thames publishes children s book

A ‘mermaid’ who swam down the Thames to raise awareness of plastic pollution has written a book about how she rescued a cow during her journey. Lindsey Cole wore a mermaid’s tail for some of the 200-mile swim from Lechlade, Gloucestershire, to Teddington, South West London. On the way she collected tonnes of plastic to highlight how we are choking marine life. She was accompanied by a support boat manned by artist Barbara de Moubray carrying a giant mermaid sculpture made from plastic bottles. Lindsey reads to children On the stretch between Culham and Swinbrook she encountered a cow stuck in the water and called firefighters to rescue the stricken animal.

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