Hundreds brave North Sea in Christmas Day dips

Hundreds of radical - galore successful festive fancy formal costumes - braved icy waters arsenic Christmas Day dips were held on the Suffolk coast.

Swimmers raised wealth for assorted charities arsenic they entered the North Sea successful Felixstowe, Lowestoft and Southwold.

The dips had not taken spot implicit caller years owed to a operation of the Covid pandemic and utmost weather.

Organisers of the Lowestoft lawsuit praised the hundreds who took portion and the ample crowds that looked on.

The Everyone Active 2022 Lowestoft Christmas Day Swim - the 43rd clip the lawsuit has been held - raised wealth for the James Paget Charity Trust, the Lowestoft Volunteer Lifeguard Corps, Lowestoft Lions, Dementia UK, St John Ambulance and the Brian Gallagher Football Fund.

The Felixstowe dip - the 18th clip it has been held - was in assistance of St Elizabeth Hospice, portion the Southwold lawsuit raised funds for the Southwold RNLI, the Klondyke Skate Park task and the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

Donna Taylor, Everyone Active's wide manager astatine Waterlane Leisure Centre, successful Lowestoft, said: "We are delighted to person played our portion successful this peculiar event, which is of specified value to the section assemblage and fantastic charitable causes.

"It was large to invited everyone this morning, not conscionable the participants but besides the radical of each ages who came down to cheer them on. There were immoderate fantastic costumes connected show and our congratulations spell to those who took part."

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