{"id":347597,"date":"2026-01-02T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347597\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:36:10","slug":"dozens-brave-icy-water-for-new-years-day-north-sea-charity-swims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/347597\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens brave icy water for New Year&#8217;s Day North Sea charity swims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dozens of people have taken to the North Sea in a traditional New Year&#8217;s Day charity dip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swimmers braved the chilly waters in Mablethorpe and Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In East Yorkshire, the annual sea swim in Hornsea had to be cancelled due to high waves, so the fire service used their hoses to provide a seaside shower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the second time the event, which raises money for the town&#8217;s lifeboat, was called off. Last year, &#8220;sewage overflow events&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c745gl8yjv2o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caused its cancellation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of people have taken to the North Sea in a traditional New Year&#8217;s Day charity dip. Swimmers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-347597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}