Why a Somerset town swam nearly 8,000 lengths overnight

A town in Somerset marked the anniversary of their community pool in style - by completing an epic swimming challenge overnight.

Wivey Pool in Wiveliscombe is a heated open air pool and has been open for 90 years.

To mark the occasion, six teams recreated an overnight a Channel swim in a relay.

How do you swim the Channel in a pool?

It's 22 miles from England to France - so that's a lot of lengths!

Between them, the six teams managed:

Chloe Himms was one of the youngest swimmers to take part.

We caught up with her halfway through her challenge:

The swim took until dawn.

Taunton School entered 3 teams, the other 3 teams were from Wivey swimmers.