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Swimmers celebrate the solstice in East Yorkshire

Leanne Brown,in Hornseaand
Emma Petrie,East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
News imageFive ladies are standing on the beach in the fog wearing green knitted bobble hats with what look like eyes on the top. Two wear bright green tutus over their swim suits and three are covered in coats. They are all smiling.
News imageIce Warriors A view over the lake as the sun comes up. Rays reach across the clouded sky and the sun is reflected in the water. Wind turbines are silhouetted against the sky.Ice Warriors
Pam Harrison (L) and her friends said they would enjoy "prosecco and sausages" after their dawn swim at Hornsea
Welton Waters at sunrise, where the Ice Warriors swimming group said the water temperature was a very tempting 21°

The summer solstice was marked by swimmers in East Yorkshire at sunrise on Sunday.

It was a foggy start to the day in Hornsea, where hundreds of people gathered on the shoreline for a barbecue and a dip in the North Sea.

The water temperature was a tempting 21C at Welton Waters Adventure Centre near Hull, where 100 swimmers took to the lake earlier.

The official start of astronomical summer across the northern hemisphere is 21 June, and the longest day of the year.

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