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The Gainsborough Silk Weaving Company has an illustrious past and fascinating present, as Charlotte Reather discovers

For those dreaming of the joys of owning a yacht, Nick Ridley offers encouragement as well as a look at the harsher reality of financing your dreams

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

Claire Gaudion is one of the last makers of traditional Guernsey fishing baskets and is keeping this endangered coastal craft alive, one willow weave at a time

I was shocked in a London hostelry recently to discover that our once-proud nation has been reduced to forming an orderly queue for drinks at the pub bar. It hasn’t happened in my local yet, and all i