内容摘要：Council leaders are now assessing the results of a recent consultation before confirming their final plans.

Council leaders are now assessing the results of a recent consultation before confirming their final plans.

Alan Jenner, outdoor and adventure sports development officer for Guernsey Sports Commission, said understanding tides and encouraging swimmers to wear tow floats was a target for the island."Every single year we have strandings around the island," he said.

"Also people going out on offshore winds, an offshore wind is a wind that pushes you out to sea from the beach."The lifeboat has been called out 300% more than it used to because people are going out on floatable unicorns and lilos and paddleboards and kayaks, being pushed out to sea and they can't get back to land."Patients with long-term health conditions in part of north Devon have said they face round-trips of more than 60 miles for some blood tests after a medical group announced it would no longer provide them.

Ruby Country Medical Group has announced it will no longer offer blood tests requested by hospitals at its Holsworthy and Hatherleigh surgeries from 1 April due to funding issues.NHS Devon said plans are being put in place to ensure secondary care requested blood tests will continue to be provided to patients.

Val Bennallick, 62, of Hatherleigh requires regular blood tests due to having multiple sclerosis (MS) and haemochromatosis and said the decision had given her sleepless nights.

She said: "I have not slept properly since 17 February when I found out about this and all my symptoms are being exacerbated by the stress I am under.Ms Neas said she had been relieved to be finally reunited with Mittens.

"She basically just ran into my arms and just snuggled up in here and just did the biggest cuddles of all time," she was quoted as saying by the AP news agency on Wednesday. "It was just such a relief."Ms Neas, who had earlier decided to relocate to Australia, added: "It was not a great start to our new life in Melbourne because we didn't have the family, we weren't complete."

The one-way flight time between Christchurch and Melbourne usually takes less than four hours.The number of firefighters and stations in Staffordshire may need to be cut if government funding does not increase, the police, fire and crime commissioner has warned.