diff --git a/docs/src/developers_guide/gitwash/forking.rst b/docs/src/developers_guide/gitwash/forking.rst
index 161847ed79..247e3cf678 100644
--- a/docs/src/developers_guide/gitwash/forking.rst
+++ b/docs/src/developers_guide/gitwash/forking.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Making Your own Copy (fork) of Iris
 ===================================
 
 You need to do this only once.  The instructions here are very similar
-to the instructions at http://help.github.com/forking/, please see
+to the instructions at https://help.github.com/forking/, please see
 that page for more detail.  We're repeating some of it here just to give the
 specifics for the `Iris`_ project, and to suggest some default names.
 
diff --git a/docs/src/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/docs/src/whatsnew/3.2.rst
index 4a82b24857..6dfdb3009e 100644
--- a/docs/src/whatsnew/3.2.rst
+++ b/docs/src/whatsnew/3.2.rst
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ v3.2.1 (11 Mar 2022)
    of Iris (:issue:`4523`).
 
 #. `@pp-mo`_ removed broken tooling for deriving Iris metadata translations
-   from `Metarelate`_.  From now we intend to manage phenonemon translation
+   from ``Metarelate``.  From now we intend to manage phenonemon translation
    in Iris itself.  (:pull:`4484`)
 
 #. `@pp-mo`_ improved printout of various cube data component objects :
@@ -402,7 +402,6 @@ v3.2.1 (11 Mar 2022)
     Whatsnew resources in alphabetical order:
 
 .. _NEP-29: https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html
-.. _Metarelate: http://www.metarelate.net/
 .. _UGRID: http://ugrid-conventions.github.io/ugrid-conventions/
 .. _iris-emsf-regrid: https://github.com/SciTools-incubator/iris-esmf-regrid
 .. _faster documentation building: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/conda.html#making-builds-faster-with-mamba