MASHPEE — Wearing dive masks and bright-orange swim caps, the Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage, (OLAUG) plunge into Johns Pond searching for a yucky, broken porcelain toilet bowl. The conditions ...

Hampstead Heath’s wild swimmers are locked in a row over plans to install “steward huts” at the historic ponds.

The first thing I fell in love with was the bodies. Hairy ones. Small, curved, and contoured ones. Long, flat, and slightly out-of-proportion ones. Smooth, oily, suncream-covered ones. Wobbly, lovely ...

Campaigners argue that the designs for steward huts at the Heath’s much-loved swimming areas are out of keeping with the ...