Let’s go wild!

A stretch of the Thames has become England’s second official river bathing site, in a bid to clean up the water.

The status places obligations on the Environment Agency to monitor water quality and ask for action by landowners and water companies to improve it.

The area, at Port Meadow, Oxford, is popular with wild swimmers and joins a section of the River Wharfe in Ilkley, Yorkshire, in the accolade, which was designated as inland bathing water last year.