The aim is to help boost the wellbeing of staff affected by stressful incidents.
Audrey the Golden Retriever and Jasper a Springer Spaniel are the first wellbeing dogs to be brought in by the West Sussex service. They will visit teams across the county and help members of staff who have attended difficult incidents.
A plastic surgeon has blamed a social media trend for a dramatic increase in young people suffering serious burns.
Paul Drake, a consultant at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, said he was treating “two to three cases a week, sometimes more” during July and August.
He said a trend that started on social media, in which people put aerosol cans on fires, was behind the injuries.
In many cases the cans have exploded, leaving some people with major burns.
Sunny Willink said her son Alfie – who suffered serious burns after putting an aerosol can on a fire – was “just having fun with his friends”.
He is now being treated at the Queen Victoria Hospital.
Mr Drake said he had seen some injuries with “potentially devastating effects with lifelong scarring and disability”.
Although the majority of injuries do heal without any major long-term complications, he said the hospital was also treating injuries that required surgery.
Mr Drake said he had no doubt social media was behind the increase in cases.
“All of these stunts are captured on video and uploaded to streaming platforms where they’re consumed over a huge audience,” he said.
“The feedback that is given through likes and shares – and the celebrity you can achieve – that adds a fuel which wouldn’t necessarily have been there 20 years ago.”
Photo above courtesy of Tracey Franklin. Photo shows Spynes Mere Lake.
Volunteer wildlife rescuers were called to Mercers Lake Country Park in Merstham earlier this month after a swan was killed by a group of youths using a brick.
Police have launched an investigation and are using dispersal orders around the lakes at weekends following increased reports of anti social behaviour. It follows a similar attack on a swan at the lake last year.
Dan Rogers is a volunteer at the Swan Sanctuary and spoke to BBC Radio Surrey:
The dispersal orders at Mercers Park extended to all four open water areas from Holmethorpe to Spynes Mere.
Inspector Lyndsey Whatley of Surrey Police says anti social behaviour is a seasonal issue at the lakes:
Photo courtesy of Surrey Police. Photo shows Mercers Lake.
Hawth Woods in Crawley has an outbreak of the fungus ash dieback, and it has reached a point at which Crawley Borough Council must intervene for reasons of public safety. Regrettably, a large percentage of the wood’s ash trees will be lost.
Removal work will be carried out at intervals over the summer and unfortunately there will be disruption to the use of the woodland.
Care will be taken to preserve the woodland, the ecology, and the archaeology in the area, but these works will have an impact on the woodland, both during and after the works. Natural recovery using the dormant seedbank will be monitored and replanting will take place as required.
Ash dieback is a disease affecting most parts of the UK. Currently it is not possible to contain the disease and there is no treatment for it. Some ash trees are naturally resistant or tolerant to the disease and these are being retained to encourage future generations.
Sussex police have released an e-fit image of a man who was found dead in the undercarriage of a plane at Gatwick Airport.
The discovery was made on the 7th December after a Tui flight to London from the Gambia.
It’s thought that the man may have had friends or relatives in the UK who are waiting on his arrival.
If you recognise the man and can help police with their enquiries, you are asked to contact them on 101.
