Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, report says

London assembly committee says move will increase cleanliness of waterways and offer more access to outdoors

Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, a report from the London assembly has said, to boost cleanliness of the capital's waterways and increase access to the outdoors.

Other cities are cleaning up their rivers for swimming: Paris has opened a swimming site in the Seine in the city centre and Chicago is running its first river swim in almost a century.