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

Now we’re in the depths of winter, it’s good to make plans and look forward to the return of sunny days in spring. We’re big fans of Eastbourne on the East Sussex coast, which is one of our favourite

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The River Crouch stretches 10nm further up river from the marina, via Fambridge, Brandy Hole and Hullbridge, to Battlesbridge – the end of the navigable part of the river. This is a lovely, sheltered

Robin Hood’s Bay is a small coastal village on the edge of the North York Moors, scattered across a small stretch of rugged coastline. Its maze of steep, narrow streets tumbles toward a wide, windswep

Phil Clandillon looks at the best second-hand yachts for sailing northern Scotland and across to Norway