This versatile fighter plane was vital to the Allies during WWII

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

The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh

The German war on Allied convoys

POLZEATH BEACH, CORNWALL

The shoppers are already queuing at Taylor’s and A Francis the confectioner and even bubble cars are struggling for parking spaces...