IT MAY be making the headlines too often at the moment, but jumping in the water is nothing new. In fact York’s rivers have claimed 24 lives in the past 15 years and there were 35 near misses last year.

We’ve long known of the dangers which is why we launched our Take Care campaign, but still the message falls on deaf ears.

A summit is about to be held to look at how try we can prevent further tragedy, but this is the peak time of the year. Let’s hope it won’t be too late.