Curling up on the sofa with a cuppa on a cold November Sunday morning is not everyone's... well, cup of tea.

Swimmers saw the choppy seas off Sunny Sands beach in Folkestone as an opportunity for more fun yesterday.

Their daredevil swimming came as the Environment Agency issued a series of flood alerts for Kent, with strong winds and high tides predicted to cause difficult conditions.

People from the cross-Channel swimming club, which has members across the country, were in Folkestone for a presentation ceremony on Saturday night.

They turned heads as they went for a Sunday morning dip in a less than enticing sea.

The group are said to be extremely experienced swimmers and onlookers said they appeared to know how to counter the violence of the waves by swimming along them rather than head on.

But experts warn it is not be advisable to take a dip in choppy waters even if swimmers are extremely competent.

A 14-year-old boy in Newhaven was swept away off the Sussex coast during last week's St Jude storm.

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