A significant drop in the number of people swimming once a week dominates new sports participation figures for the 12 months up to October 2014, Sport England has revealed.

Between October 2013 and October 2014, 125,100 fewer people did some kind of sport once a week for 30 minutes – bringing the overall number down from 15.7 million to 15.6 million. But swimming – the country's most popular sport with over 2.6 million people taking part weekly – has seen a much bigger drop of 245,000 in the last 12 months.