• 6 years ago
Despite temperatures hovering only slightly above zero, a brave couple went for a swim in Mousehole, Cornwall on Sunday.

Their decision was all the more strange as the coast was being battered by strong winds form an approaching storm which has been dubbed "The Beast from the East".

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