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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
National
Tristan Cork

Man loves Bristol's Jubilee Pool so much he swam 780 lengths there in a day

People from across Bristol came together to try to keep a historic swimming pool open - and swam an astonishing 138 miles to do it.

The community in Knowle took over their local pool - the Jubilee Pool - after the city council said it would have to close otherwise, and now the volunteers who run it have to raise money to keep it going.

Faced with spiralling energy bills, the group had to raise another £30,000 by the end of January - and did it just in the nick of time with an astonishing 24-hour swimathon in the last weekend of the month.

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