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Until today every tool's facts were baked in when it was built. Tools can now read open, licensed live sources — Environment Agency river gauges, open weather models — with caching, a visible as-of time, and a calm fallback when a source is down. Tide times still wait for a licensed source.
Wave size, swell and whether the wind is offshore for Fistral, the town beaches, Porth, Watergate Bay and Crantock — from open weather models, refreshed through the day, with an honest line on what model forecasts can and can't tell you. The most-asked-for tool in Newquay since we arrived.
Three starting tools for England's most argued-about transport tangle and its floodplain: a flood watch reading the Environment Agency's live river gauges for Osney, Botley Road, Abingdon Road and the Cherwell; plain answers on the congestion charge, traffic filters, bin days, the tip and NHS dentists; and a who-to-call page sorted by which of the two councils owns the problem.
Pages now show a calm loading placeholder instead of a blank screen while content arrives, errors get a plain-words page with a retry button, and you can add Town Tools to your phone's home screen like an app. Menu links are also easier to tap.
The codebase gained its first automated tests: the slug rules that keep town URLs from colliding with site pages, the rate limiter on our anonymous endpoints, and the tool registry's wiring are all now checked on every change. A new fleet check (validate-configs) re-verifies every live tool's stored data against its current schema, so a future code change can't quietly break an existing town's tool. Nothing visible changed today — this is the kind of work that keeps everything else honest.
Newquay joins with three tools built from a first research pass: a nine-beach guide (with 2026 RNLI dates, the beach-by-beach dog rules, and the Whipsiderry closure), straight answers to common questions (the booked-only tip, the Minor Injury Unit's Wednesday closure, the honest NHS-dentist situation), and a who-to-call card grouped by what you need — including foodbank sessions and the housing options line. Everything time-sensitive carries the date we checked it.
Fixed the search-engine sitemap address, added standard browser security protections, put sensible limits on anonymous traffic, removed leftover placeholder images, and added a skip-to-content link for keyboard and screen-reader users.
Every tool page has a small form to report a wrong or out-of-date fact — corrections go into the same daily review queue as suggestions. Behind the scenes: new reusable 'who to call' and 'beach guide' tool kinds, available to every town.
Carlyon Bay, Porthpean, Charlestown and Pentewan — dog rules with dates, parking, toilets and the lifeguard situation, checked against the beach owners' own listings.
Council, health, money and food help, and police on one page, with tappable phone numbers. Services here are split across four organisations; this puts them back together.
Bins, the tip's booking system, NHS dentists, money help, and the Eden Project Locals' Pass — the questions that come up again and again, answered without jargon.
Our first Cornish town. Research covered what residents actually say — the town centre, the dental crisis, the tip's booking system — and the first three tools follow from it: common questions answered plainly, a who-to-call directory, and a beach guide with dog rules and dates.