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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hardy-swimmers-defy-cancellation.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Members of the Serpentine Swimming Club take part in their annual Christmas Day swim in the Serpentine Lido, in Hyde Park" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-hardy-swimmers-defy-cancellation.jpg" alt="Members of the Serpentine Swimming Club take part in their annual Christmas Day swim in the Serpentine Lido, in Hyde Park"/></a></p>
<p>An annual open-air Christmas Day swimming race was cancelled after the cold weather left the water frozen.</p>
<p>Members of the Serpentine Swimming Club arrived at London&#8217;s Hyde Park to find the 100-yard race postponed because of ice.</p>
<p>But that failed to stop around 40 people jumping into an area of the lake where the ice had been broken up.</p>
<p>Some wore Santa hats while others drank hot tea as they tried to cope with the bitterly cold temperatures in the water.</p>
<p>Club secretary Brian Thomas said: &#8220;We just went for a quick dip and a wade in the ice. It was chilly but invigorating. I got in, splashed around a bit and got out again. We&#8217;re not stupid so we don&#8217;t stay in for ages.&#8221;</p>
<p>The race was first held in 1864 and the Peter Pan Cup has been awarded since 1904 when it was introduced by novelist Sir James Barrie.</p>
<p>Mr Thomas said it was the first time the Serpentine had been iced over on Christmas Day morning since 1981. &#8220;It was disappointing as it&#8217;s obviously a big event. We have races every Saturday morning but this is the one everybody wants to win,&#8221; Mr Thomas said.</p>
<p>Members of England&#8217;s oldest swimming club braved the chilly sea to take part in their annual Christmas Day dip in the English Channel, where the temperature was a refreshing 3.3C.</p>
<p>More than 30 members of the 300-strong Brighton Swimming Club &#8211; celebrating its 150th anniversary this year &#8211; made up most of the contingent, with hundreds of well wrapped-up spectators looking on.</p>
<p>Club chairman John Ottaway, who has been doing Christmas Day sea swims for 25 years, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s the coldest I have experienced in December and about 2.5 degrees colder than usual. We have had February sea temperatures in December. They call it global warming, I think, but I don&#8217;t know about that.&#8221;</p>
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