A woman from Surrey is to swim the English Channel to raise funds for a veterans' charity. Helen Jenkins from Godalming will swim the 21 miles (33.7km) between Dover and France in July.

Mercedes Gleitze was the first British woman to swim the English Channel in 1927. In the same year she also became the first person to swim the Strait of Gibraltar. These were just two of her ...

And Graeme is not going to let a bit of heart surgery hold him back! He says of the Channel swim: "We hope to grab the public’s attention with this Channel swim as people constantly tell me they ...