Danger in the depths

AN EXAMPLE OF DEEP LAYERED, CO-ORDINATED DEFENCE IN PLACE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1940

Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire

A boat that takes the ground provides greater freedom and opens up more safe havens

Scouring the ground for metal might seem a solitary pursuit, but one detectorist has mobilised his fellow hobbyists into a network of finders who are on call across the country, working in teams to reunite people with lost belongings. Andrew Lloyd reports

Today’s staunch game-fisher has good reason to thank yesterday’s stolid coarse angler, writes Mike Handyside

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