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At a nursery in Machen, childcare was a big concern for the staff, but so was the closure of the swimming pool in Bedwas.

Earlier in 2024, Essex County Council stressed it did not provide swimming equipment after a sign suggesting it would hand out flippers, masks and snorkels appeared at an underpass near the city centre.

But in 2021, a low-level National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration bureaucrat banned anyone from swimming within 50 yards of Hawaiian spinner dolphins.

“I played every sport growing up — soccer, football, basketball, golf, tennis, rugby, swimming,” he said.

This particular ichthyosaur is thought to have swum the seas about 185 million years ago, a period from which very few ichthyosaur fossils have been found.