This is a new section for UptheBeavers and a risky departure from the safety of largely fictitious, three paragraph news items. The site is being opened up to you, the great and the good in the outside world, and we are looking for you to send us your e-mails. (Not all of your e-mails, obviously, that would probably break some sort of Data Protection laws)

The e-mails can cover any subject. They can make serious points, ask questions, offer responses to UptheBeavers items, share unsubstantiated gossip, make announcements, give brazen plugs, provide stupid pictures, make jokes, complain, insult, start fights etc. etc. You can send us pictures, sounds and movies and, of course, you can still e-mail to say how much you love the site, if you so wish.

All a bit like the letters page in The Daily Mail really, but with a slightly more aquatic-based slant, and hopefully less inane ramblings about those seeking asylum, the claiming of state benefits and 'the youth of today'.

E-mails may be edited for brevity, sanity and / or comedic effect and UptheBeavers cannot promise to publish every e-mail we receive. That is unless, of course, only three people contact us in the first six months, in which case we positively guarantee to publish every message we receive, probably more than once.

Famous people to contact UptheBeavers in the past include former Olympian and Eurosport swimming commentator, James Parrack who said the site was 'hilarious' and that we should 'keep it up', before offering a plug for the no-doubt stupendous Bluewater Training Camps. Sadly Mr Parrack neglected to include details of why anybody would want to go training at a over-crowded shopping centre near the M25.

New Zealand Swimming Director extraordinaire Clive Rushton currently holds the record for the e-mail that travelled the furthest distance. He sent his message from the city of Christchurch - which sounds awfully far away.

It goes without saying that if nobody sends any e-mails in we shall be forced to do the honourable thing and simply make some up.