{"id":45880,"date":"2024-12-30T11:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/westward-ho-early-new-years-day-sea-dip-amid-weather-warning\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:39:34","slug":"westward-ho-early-new-years-day-sea-dip-amid-weather-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/westward-ho-early-new-years-day-sea-dip-amid-weather-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Westward Ho! early New Year’s Day sea dip amid weather warning"},"content":{"rendered":"


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People wore fancy dress for the fundraising event <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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An annual New Year’s Day sea dip has taken place three days early due to a weather warning for 1 January.<\/p>\n

The Westward Ho! dip took place on Sunday in north Devon. About 1,000 people wore fancy dress and raised money for the local area.<\/p>\n

A yellow wind warning is in place for New Year’s Day for Devon from 07:00 BST until 23:59, with snow, rain and wind warnings in place for other parts of the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Organiser Peter Sawyer, managing director of Visit Westward Ho!, said moving the event had resulted in “the most stressful day yet”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said: “[It’s] always a risk moving an event, you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t.<\/p>\n

“The Sunday morning was perfect for the dip, the village was rammed and although only half turned up it was still packed.<\/p>\n

“It was better to make half the people happy than to make all of them unhappy with a last minute cancel.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Westward Ho! dip took place on Sunday with about 1,000 people attending<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mr Sawyer said: “If we had moved it back into January then all the holidaymakers would have gone home. <\/p>\n

“Many book into Westward Ho! just to attend this event. <\/p>\n

“I wanted it to be safe, involve locals and visitors so it needed to be a Sunday.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n