Get on in, the water really is lovely now

Saturday 28th May 2011, 2:29PM BST.

Vivian Marshall, left, and Sandra Killen from Bristol, who swam at Cobo on Wednesday and would be more than happy to do so again – but not in yesterday’s cold wind. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1141142)

BEACHGOERS have not been put off Cobo by it failing to reach basic standards of water quality.

The west-coast beach failed the European Union legal water quality standard last year – for the third time in four.

But people on the beach said that they would still swim in the sea.

Sandra Killen from Bristol said she went in the water on Wednesday.

‘I was a little shocked turning on the TV and finding out the water I swam in on the day before had failed a test but I understand the results are from a year ago, so I’d still go in,’ she said.