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 | Councillor Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE has been appointed Patron of Charnwood Home-Start Charity.
"Support and friendship for families." Click for more details |
 | Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE has broke yet another record. She swam into the record books again by completing the 28.5 miles course around Manhattan Island using the butterfly stroke in 9 hours and 28 minutes.
"We are what we think
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts
We make the world" Click for more details |
 | Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE is helping with the Little Lives Appeal, for the Special Care Baby Unit at Milton Keynes this May. In conjunction with the Picture Framing Centre, Blackpool she will be working on this latest project to raise money for another worthy cause. Click for more details |
 | With plenty of butterfly records under her belt already, Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE is going in search of more this summer. First on her agenda is a 28.5 mile swim in New York around Manhattan Island followed a month later by a shorter though gruelling cold swim in the Humber, UK Click for more details |
 | Hundereds of visitors flocked to Loughborough Town Hall to watch their MP Nicky Morgan and world-record holder Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE strut their stuff on the catwalk for this year's Fair Trade Show Click for more details |
 | Julie FLYING to a 19thRecord Swim
Two years after first deciding to ‘go for a Channel Medley Relay swim, celebrations are in order for World Record swimmer Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE. Finally, the thumbs up were given and on Saturday 17thSeptember Julie and her intrepid team of Susan Ractliffe, Pete May, Julie and Kim Owen set out from Shakespeare Beach, Dover to swim the Channel. Whilst Julie is no stranger to English Channel swimming, this relay was to be the first of its kind; no other relay team in the world had accomplished swimming the Channel using all four strokes and on completion this would be Dr. Bradshaw’s 19thworld record. Julie now tells the story: Click for more details |
 | On a cold, rainy weekend of August 18th and 19th, marathon swimmer, Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE created yet another world record this time on Lake Windermere, Cumbria. Windermere is England’s largest lake at 10.55 miles long. Not content with one or two way, Julie led her intrepid ladies team up and down the lake SIX times, a total distance of around 66 miles. This time the team swimming with Julie were Pip Spibey, Lucy Roper, Lucy Petrie, Eva Andreotti and Susan Gill. Click for more details |
 | It is a wonderful feeling to get any world record; this one was no different. On Tuesday 6th January 2009, after just 33 hours and 33 minutes in the water, the ladies team in which I was swimming, stepped ashore at Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake. The total distance was 120 kms, the longest ever recorded relay swim Click for more details |
 | It hardly seems like a year ago since the press bombarded me with congratulations on the announcement that I had been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for my ‘Services to Swimming and Charity’. Whilst I’ve been used to media attention over the years, having 15 World Long Distance and Channel Swimming Records, I had to say of this prestigious honour, it was the ‘icing on the cake’! Click for more details |
 | Last year it was butterfly in the UK’s lakes and lochs, but this month, Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, became the scene of a new venture – the challenge was 50 miles through some of Ireland’s scenic waterways, beginning at Crom estate in the Upper lough and finishing at Belleek on the Lower Lough, just outside the famous Pottery. Click for more details |
 | From MBE to doctor in a year – what’s the secret of champion swimmer Julie Bradshaw’s success? (Jacqueline Morley reports...) Click for more details |
 | “That’s an endurance feat in its own right”, commented a canoeist at the evening reception of the Irish Long Distance Swimming Annual Lough Erne Championship. His question to me had been how many strokes had I done in my latest world record butterfly swim! This prompted my thoughts, as it was, indeed, a very interesting one. Click for more details |
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