The fishguard fiasco

Modern intrusions vie with the trill of oystercatchers close to Dave’s dream home

On 21 October 1805, smoke filled the skies over the seas west of Cape Trafalgar, a headland in the Province of Cádiz in the southwest of Spain, as a fierce battle raged. After nearly five hours of int

Roger Morgan-Grenville celebrates the shapeshifting glories of Britain’s sea paths, evanescent byways revealed by the tides

Just where did all the weird ghosts go is a question that has been posed in Fortean Times. One answer might be Wales. Ghost hunter John Harries declared, “In order to meet a Welsh ghost one really nee

Corfe Castle has towered over a Dorset peninsula for 900 years; its stone walls seeing kings crowned, civil wars fought and saints made

‘Out of evil cometh good’, and out of a disaster one wild October night on Anglesey came an invention that may have saved more lives than any other. It’s a story best told on a fascinating walk on the island’s east coast.