Kayakers are to be told to stop getting naked in public, reported The Telegraph. An official Paddlers’ Code for England, expected to be launched this summer, will advise canoeists, kayakers and stand-up paddle boarders to change clothes “in a discreet and considerate way”. Last year, a councillor in Totnes, Devon, raised the problem, saying: “They get out of their cars and get changed into their wetsuits on the pavement. If you’re walking out of your front door, that’s not what you want to see.”
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