Downstream

the place with at least one
incident every year. The
annual May Day tradition of
jumping off Magdalen Bridge
into the Cherwell has led to
numerous injuries. Recently
the coroner at Oxford ruled
on a case where a fourteen-
year-old boy jumped into the
Thames with his girlfriend,
and hadn’t told her he
couldn’t swim. ‘I’ve jumped
from bridges myself and it’s
great fun,’ says Russell, ‘but