Downstream

Richard is certainly putting
me off having a swim around
here, and recent reports from
the Southend Lifeboat Station
confirm the risks, with
children found stranded on a
sand dune with the flood tide
coming in fast, and two
people stuck in the mud
underneath the pier head.
Then there are the swimmers;
a capsized catamaran had two
people on board, ‘one of
which had swum from