On Lastovo island, Croatia, conservationists and local government have set up the first in a string of marine protection areas that will form a "blue corridor" along the Dalmation coast, an area expected to be one of the hottest new holiday destinations over the next 15 years.

BBC: Med threat from 'concrete coasts'

In Aliabad, a town in the south of the province, a group of about a hundred men called the Critical Infrastructure Protection force had set up a string of checkpoints.

NEWYORKER: After America

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is investigating a string of E. coli cases among visitors to a West Midlands park.

BBC: Sutton Park E. coli cases confirmed

There's a whole string of other committees: Education (at 9.30am) continues its look at child protection, with officials from social services departments' Safeguarding Children Boards.

BBC: Week ahead in Parliament