A KENDAL man plans to make a splash for a cancer charity when he swims 21 miles across the English channel next month.
Dan Meyrick – a former Queen Katherine School pupil – hopes to raise £10,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support during his gruelling solo swim in September. The London fire fighter has trained for 18 [...]

A BIZARRE swimming incident on Windermere coincided with the announcement that a team of paranormal investigators will plumb the lake’s depths in search of a giant creature.
Thomas Noblett, 46, was swimming the lake this week when he was suddenly swamped by a three-foot wave of unknown origin.
A spate of eyewitness sightings reported by The Gazette [...]