The relay team suffered so many jellyfish stings they had to be checked out in hospital.
A group of charity swimmers had to abandon their bid to swim from the mainland to the Isles of Scilly due to strengthening winds and jellyfish stings.
"It looks like we came down to Penzance to get botox and lip fillers," one of the swimmers joked as she waited for treatment in hospital.Blooms of mauve stinger jellyfish have been seen off west Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Stewart Douglas said: "There were literally thousands at night because they come to the surface, thousands and thousands.
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