What was the deerness mermaid?

Dick Waters recalls moments that make the hairs stand on the back of your neck

LATE one night, when all customers had left the Mermaid Tavern, Morwenna was washing the used tankards. There hadn’t been that many customers that night, which was often a sign that people were engage

MORWENNA stood motionless, the gusting wind buffeting her. The music she could hear came in snatches, brought to her on the waves of the wind. There was a pale moon. If she got to the headland, she mi

In a recent letter (FT455:61), Tom Bryan refers to a claim by a man called Sandy Gunn that, in January 1900, he saw a mermaid. Bryan gives his source for this story as a book by the late Ronald Macdon

Cradled in rugged cliffs, the Scottish town of Eyemouth has a fishing history that lingers in the salt air, with tales of loss and resilience

Crew training and a delivery trip provide an exhilarating start to the sailing season