Downstream

Playwright Steven Berkoff,
who swam at the Tower
Bridge beach as a child,
called it an ‘audacious,
dazzling, daring piece of
derring-do’. Kate Rew,
founder of the Outdoor
Swimming Club, praised
Parris’ sense of adventure,
while politician Vince Cable
admired Parris’ ‘pluck’.
However, he added that
considering the Thames
‘takes sewage from