内容摘要：The charity van is used to deliver food and was about to expand its services to Eastchurch, Leysdown, Minster, Rushenden and areas of Sheerness.

The charity van is used to deliver food and was about to expand its services to Eastchurch, Leysdown, Minster, Rushenden and areas of Sheerness.

And the number of cruise ships coming to Wales has risen to 97 this year - 25% up on last year.Tourists visiting the north of Wales this summer included families from France who said they wanted to escape the heat back home.

Fabian Bars, who had travelled from Paris with wife Amelie and their children to Ogwen Valley in Eryri, said: "We prefer this temperature. In Paris it's too hot in summer."Mrs Bars said: "Before coming we were afraid of having rain during our holidays, but it’s nice and it's not hot - it's perfect."Elisabeth and Benjamin Veloppe visited Dolgarrog in Conwy from their home near Nantes with their children Wilhelmina and Aziraphale, and said extreme heat elsewhere was a factor in their decision.

Mr Veloppe said: "With children it's very important because the night is too hot, we can't walk easily in the afternoon - it's really hard."Mrs Veloppe said: "In north Wales you have a lot of beautiful places, you can have walks, and you've got little parks for kids."

Phil Scott from Ribride - a tour boat company on the Menai Strait between Anglesey and mainland Wales - said while summer is always busy it would be better to attract people outside peak times or the so-called "shoulder season" between the summer months and the winter.

He said: "We need the numbers of people in those shoulder seasons and older couples that aren't bringing children with them., he said dozens joined the search including Malin Head Coast Guard, the Irish Coast Guard helicopter and a former RNLI crew member, who was on the lough in his own personal boat.

"There was a local yacht race happening that day, and they stopped that and assisted with the search," he said."It was terribly traumatic to look at the families watching out over the lough and praying."

The third teenage boy was helped out of the water "with the assistance of a local man" and was able to "scramble" onto the coastal pathway, Mr Joyce added.Mr Joyce said support services have been put in place following the incident.