■ Distance: 7½ miles/12km ■ Time: 5 hours ■ Grade: Moderate

■ Distance: 5 miles/8km ■ Time: 3 hours ■ Grade: Moderate

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

● A couple of miles inland from the ...

A winter walk can offer up some truly beautiful and surprising wild spectacles – Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s reserves have plenty to offer

The location of Boatfolk’s Portishead Marina just below the mouth of the River Avon, up the Bristol Channel, means it is particularly tidal but it does offer some interesting cruising opportunities an