At 11.52am Humber Coastguard received a 999 call from the distressed owners of a dog reporting that their animal had gone over the cliff at Browns Point near Seaton Sluice.

At 9.40am Clyde Coastguard received a report from Caledonian MacBrayne ferries stating that the MV Isle of Arran had been in collision with the pier at Kennacraig, West Loch Tarbert in Argyll.

Interesting update which gets below the numbers.

This is an issue that came through strongly in Oneplace - our new overview of local public services - and we'll be coming back to it again.

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Press release - England told to think ‘local’ to make the most of £105 million rural fund

We warmly congratulate the winners of the Countryside Alliance Awards, announced this week. The winners of the ‘Rural Oscars’ are:

Local Food Award: Beadlam Grange Farm Shop...

Work to resurface parts of the M4 near Maidenhead in Berkshire starts next week.

Thousands of road studs, or cat’s eyes, on the A2 in Kent are to be replaced, offering improved safety for the 25,000 drivers who use the road every day.