A cookie is a small piece of text stored on your computer, phone or whatever you use to surf the Internet. Cookies have many uses, but fundamentally they are used to store information about you on your computer.

We encourage you to accept the cookies our website uses as they help us to improve the user experience for you and many others.

The cookies we use are:

• SiteAnalyze web analytics cookie: this cookie is used to help record your use of this website. It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when you last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on our website.
  This SiteAnalyze cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognise your browser when you read a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics. No restrictions on use are imposed by not allowing the cookie.
  This SiteAnalyze cookie is called 'nmstat' in the list of cookies and is set to expire 1,000 days after your last visit. If you accept the nmstat cookie a further cookie "szcookiechoice" is also set to note this action, this cookie will expire  after 1000 days.
  
• ASP.Net_SessionID - This cookie is used to track your current session while you are on the website. The cookie expires 30 minutes after you leave the website.
  
• Web mapping service cookies: these cookies are used to help personalise your use of the web mapping service we do not collect or store this information for any other purpose. Your consent will be sought before installing these cookies.
  The Web mapping service cookies contain the following information: a set of co-ordinates to represent a home location, a string which represents a list of tool options to display, a number representing a favourite layer of information and a string to say that the licence terms and conditions have been accepted. These cookies are only used to personalise your use of the service. No restrictions on use are imposed by not allowing the cookies.
  These cookies are called bbcwebgis, bbcwebgisagree, bbcwebgisfavlay and bbcwebgismtool in the list of cookies, and are set to expire 1,000 days after they were first created.

To delete cookies or reject cookies:

We recommend you allow the cookies we set by this website as they help us provide a better service.
If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from.   

Under settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored.

You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

If you set your browser to refuse cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various websites that does not work.