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

My last email ended with this: We are both very much looking forward to our Tasman Sea crossing to Nelson, New Zealand. The sea with its infinite cleansing powers should wash away all that earth life

There is an omission from Will Farmer’s article on music and motor sport [Pump up the volume, January]. The Radio 1 Fun Day was held at Mallory Park in May 1975 and remains the most bizarre race meeti

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Jersey-based Graham Root joins the Our Boats crew with his first ever motorboat…

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