Andy has finished plotting his route for the sponsored walk we wrote about earlier in the year. Turns out 3,500 miles was a slight underestimation and the walk will actually be no less than 5,262 miles.

He is visiting 412 newspaper offices and 310 radio stations over a period of about 8 and a half months, starting up here in the North of England.

We'll keep you updated on his progress, and will be sure to make it known on My Formby when he starts.

If you'd like to support Andy, please visit his website at www.aboutms.co.uk

Over the past week, we've been working on a few updates to make the site a little bit easier to use and navigate. We've done this by moving to a new system which lets us manage the content we display here a lot more easily, which hopefully will let us - and you - improve the quality of My Formby.

You'll have to bear with us as we put back any missing content, but by the end of this week, everything should be available again.

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Save Our Squirrels' has issued an urgent request to all Formby residents and visitors to help reduce the spread of the squirrel pox disease in Formby.

The recent outbreak in Formby is being transmitted by grey squirrels, whose numbers have risen recently in Formby and the surrounding areas. Grey squirrels are immune to the disease but they carry the disease to the red squirrels, to which it is deadly.

'Save Our Squirrels' has supplied a list of ways in which you can help:

* Ring 0151 920 3769 if you see a sick or dead red squirrel
* Or report it ot the National Trust Kiosk at Victoria Road.
* Do not handle sick animals.
* Help us to control greys by reporting any that you see locally.
* Clean or remove bird tables or squirrel feeders, to reduce infection.

For more information, please visit: www.saveoursquirrels.org.uk.

We've just received an e-mail from Andy Monk asking for our support in a walk stretching across England in aid of two very worthwhile Charities helping to improve the lives of people living with Multiple Sclerosis by working towards treatment for the disease.

Andy will be visiting every Newspaper office and Radio station in England later this year, a walk which is a staggering 3,500 miles in total raising funds for the Accelerated Cure Project and The British Trust for the Myelin Project.

If you'd like to support Andy, you can sponsor him at his site, www.aboutms.co.uk.

We'd like to wish Andy the best of luck, and we'll try and keep you informed of his progress when he begins later this year.