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Evening Standard
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Tom Place

Five die at open water beauty spots during bank holiday heatwave

Four teenagers have drowned and a 60-year-old man has died in separate open water incidents across the UK over the bank holiday weekend.

With temperatures soaring past 30C, police in Lincolnshire, Devon and Cornwall, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Warwickshire, confirmed the deaths amid warnings of the “very real risk” of swimming in open water during the heatwave.

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