"It's really opened its doors to the LGBTQ community."

Friends of the Dart member Robert Worthington said people should be comfortable to go in the water "all year round".He said it was not "just swimmers", but also "kayakers, paddleboarders, a whole range of different people who are at risk if they don't know what the quality of the water is".

A man who used the government's £2 bus fare scheme to travel hundreds of miles across the country is preparing for a new challenge.Andrew Cowell, 47, has previously travelled by buses alone to Whitby, Penzance and Poland, from Derby.He now plans to spend 13 days travelling on a total of 84 service buses and one ferry around the coast of England and Wales.

Mr Cowell estimates he will spend nine hours a day on a bus.Mr Cowell said his latest trip is part of his fundraising efforts for the Railway Children charity.

He said: "I'm actually participating in the three peaks challenge at the end of June and so I'm using this as an opportunity to boost fundraising.

"It's also partly for just personal amusement, just to see if I can do it, and thirdly to raise awareness of local buses which are under threat, particularly in rural areas."His latest comments reflect an American president who is wielding total authority over his party and the full power of government to turn a transactional "America First" foreign policy view into reality.

Trump's latest broadside against Zelensky came after the Ukrainian leader publicly rejected an American bid to gain access to – and profits from - Ukrainian minerals."That's not a serious conversation," Zelensky said. "I can't sell our state."

The US president seems serious, however, about reducing American military commitments to Europe and pivoting resources instead toward containing China.And before his decisive election win in November, he frequently criticised the scale of US military aid being sent to Ukraine, describing Zelensky as "the greatest salesman of all time".