Filling a gap in the market

As an island nation, the UK has a long and proud fishing history, a cultural identity that caused waves in the 2016 campaign to leave the EU. For a few days in May 2025 that passion resurfaced, when t

News from your cruising area

Simon Ellis completes the final leg of his three-month sabbatical cruise along the South Coast of England

During lockdown Charlotte Dawe and Angus Cowen moved to the coast and launched Sea Sisters, an artisanal fish cannery – a salty love letter to the British coastline

OUR MAN ON THE BANK

I’ve not long returned to selling the magazine. A car knocked me off my bike and I had to have three months off Big Issue. I had a fractured knee and a torn ligament in my leg. My recovery has been up