If you are searching for specific information, you can use the keyword facility above to look at any entry on this website - simply type in the words you want and click Search.

You can choose in which order you would like your results shown, by picking an option from the drop-down list on the right:

• By Relevance
  Those with the highest word hit are shown first
• By Date - Newest First
  The items added most recently are shown first
• By Section of the site
  Results are grouped to show for example all News items, together and then all Documents.

Many sections of the site have their own search function, which may be easier than searching whole site.

All parts of an item are searched, including most attachments.

Ways to improve the results of a search

• Wildcard (*)
  Use * at the end of a word to get results using all variants of the word, e.g. test* will list items that contain any one of: test, tests, testing, tested
• AND, OR, NOT
  Use to join or separate words in the same section of an item or page (e.g. words in the title, or words in the page content). For example Dog OR Cat will return results containing either Dog or Cat, or both. Dog AND Cat will return only results containing both Dog and Cat
• NEAR
  Use if you want to obtain results with your keywords within a few words of each other in the same section of an item or page, but you are not sure of the exact phrase used, e.g. Council NEAR housing will return items containing "Council housing", and "Council policy on housing", but not one with Council in the first sentence, and housing at the bottom of the page.
• Search for a phrase or string of text " "
  To conduct a search for an exact phrase, use quotation marks around it, eg "Porthcressa Beach"
  This is a useful feature for place names, legal terms, document types and other situations where you want to ensure that words appear next to each other on the page.