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

I still remember the first time I saw the island. It was the summer of 2008 and I was standing on the shore of neighbouring Walney Island with nature guide and former Mayor of Barrow, John Murphy. We

Jim Perrin revisits a minor but notable hill of the Rhinogydd, in the fine company of campaigning photographer Fay Godwin and archaeologist Peter Crew

Technology has transformed sailing, but was the past better or worse? Andy Du Port shares his views

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Tim Steel and his family take their new Dale Classic 37 on its first proper cruise