La Puce writes

Charlie Pridham wrote:
1) small leaved low bush with oval leaves with pointed ends, about 1cm
long, evergreen, inconspicuous flowers, seen in municipal plantings
everywhere, and not L nitida (which has round ends to the leaves.

2) evergreen climber, leaves about 1.5cm long, oval, abundant small pink
flowers in early summer, branches festooned with red berries in late
summer
1st one is probably pileata.
2nd one is tricky as most of the main evergreen group have black berries.
if foliage is blue grey then may be splendida, difficult to grow and hard to
get hold of. another possibility is implexa but I have not seen the berries.

The implexa has dark red flowers and again black berries. I'm wondering
if the 2nd has been mistaken with a cotonoaster.

No, I have not got confused with cotoneaster. I can usually distinguish
between Rosaceae and Caprifoliaceae ;-)

1) I am not aware of any climbing cotoneaster
2) The berries are soft with an almost 'translucent' look, typical of
red Lonicera berries. They are not cotoneaster berries, which are
harder, with a thicker shiny skin.
3) Cotoneaster flowers are open, with separated petals and clearly
visible stamens While I have not looked closely at these flowers, they
were not out of character for Lonicera (it was sold to me as a Lonicera)

How 'small' are the
flowers, trumpets, with 3 or 6 or 9 petals, rose like flowers with 6
rounded petals?

Neither rose nor cotoneaster have 6 petals. They both have 5 petals,
which is typical for most (though not all) Rosaceae.
--
Kay