Police forces, fire brigades and councils will ramp up safety patrols around bathing spots after 12 people died in open waters across the UK amid this week’s heatwave.
A 16-year-old boy became the 12th person to die after getting into difficulty in the water at Bracklinn Falls, near Callander in Stirlingshire, on Thursday.
His body was recovered after police arrived at the site shortly after 6:45pm.
On Wednesday, the body of a boy, 15, was recovered from a pond in Swanscombe, Kent, and a 14-year-old boy, named locally as Baltazar L’Quy, also died in the River Thames in Oxford.
There were also fatalities in Lincoln, Halifax, Rotherham, Warwickshire, Cheshire, Farnborough and Lancashire, along with a man in his 60s in Cornwall and a woman in her 70s in Wales.
