Is festival season safe this summer?

Every June, across France, there is a huge street festival, the Fête de la Musique, where towns and cities stage free concerts, parades and dancing, with millions of people taking part. This year, tho

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

My night out came to a painful end

The atmosphere on the minibus was electric as husband and wife Stephen and Sara Ridgewell headed out for an ex-colleague’s engagement party. Little did they know their evening off from parenting dutie

Picture this: it’s a balmy summer night, you’re in your favourite sundress, you have a glistening tan, a crisp glass of rosé in your hand and the sound of laughter washes over you as you sit in a beer

The question about wild swimming I get asked most often is: “is it safe?” Rarely does this query refer to the risk of drowning – the usual concern is about the quality of the water. And understandably