There has been a call for a ban on the use of jet skis near Clevedon’s beach due to concern over the speeds they are being ridden at. Swimmers, and some residents, are now lobbying to stop jet skis launching from the beach slipway at high speed.

They are hoping for a ban on jet skis near the popular swimming area or alternatively that a permit will be required, which insure riders had insurance.

The issue is to be raised at the next meeting of the multi-agency North Somerset Water Safety Committee on November 22nd.

Plans for a £6 daily charge to access a slipway in Pembrokeshire are being called a “tax on leisure and fishing” by some people who use the Freshwater East slipway.  The county’s national park authority, however, says the income is needed to bring in a warden to manage the slipway and improve safety.  A barrier has already been put in place with plans to start charging from January.

Despite the £6 daily charge the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority say weekly and annual rates would bring that cost down for boat owners.  The park authority says the charges are comparable with other supervised sipways, and they will  “review the arrangements and consult with local people as we have done every season for the past ten years."

The transition trustees of the new charity being established to tend 2,000 miles of canals and rivers in England and Wales from April 2012 have announced that it will be called the Canal & River Trust (or Glandwr Cymru in Wales) and have also unveiled its new symbol. The changes reflect the important step the Government is taking in creating a new successor organisation to British Waterways to hold the waterways in trust for the nation in perpetuity. The change also offers an opportunity to attract the attention of, and to appeal to, the wider public.

The British Waterways brand will stay in Scotland, where the waterways currently managed by British Waterways Scotland will be kept in the public sector and will not form part of the Canal & River Trust. The Welsh name for the new charity, Glandwr Cymru, translates literally as ‘Waterside Wales’ and reflects a determination by transition trustees that the trust has a distinctly Welsh character and focus for its waterways in Wales.

Comedian and RNLI supporter Jo Brand has learnt lifesaving sea survival skills at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s College in Poole as part of her series, Jo Brand's Big Splash. Jo takes the plunge in the RNLI College’s sea survival pool and experiences first hand some of the skills and techniques that the charity’s volunteer lifeboat crews rely on to save lives at sea.

The high-tech pool has been specially created for training lifeboat crews and can simulate the most challenging of sea environments, including waves of around 1.5m high with thunder, lightning, rain and night time effects.

The programme will be shown on Thursday 13 October at 9pm on UK's Dave channel (Freeview 19, Sky 111, Virgin 128).

Image courtesy RNLI