Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Jason Bell Simon Stone (centre) will direct the production, starring Andrew Lincoln (left) and Alicia Vikander Actress Alicia Vikander is set to make her UK theatre debut in a new production of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, producers have confirmed. It will mark the Oscar winner’s first stage role of...
Zhara Simpson BBC News, South West Paul Naylor A rainbow sea slug was found in the Isles of Scilly in 2022 “Sea slugs are like normal slugs you find in your garden but jazzed up,” Eleanor Goodman says. Ms Goodman, a Devon Wildlife Trust volunteer based at Wembury Marine Centre, said she was passionate about...
RNLI/Nathan Williams The RNLI said its lifeguards will start beach patrols on Saturday Water safety experts across the south west of England and the Channel Islands are advising swimmers and surfers to be safe in the water this May bank holiday weekend. The Surf Life Saving GB (SLSGB) said its volunteers had already had a...
Anna Varle BBC South West health correspondent BBC Paddy McMonagle said swimming helped him stop thinking about his treatment for cancer Patients being treated for cancer in Devon are using cold water swimming as therapy. Chill Coach Ellie Ricketts has encouraged 150 patients at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth to complete an eight-week course called Into...
The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea, state media has reported, in an escalation of a regional dispute with the Philippines. State broadcaster CCTV released images of four officers, wearing all black and holding the Chinese flag, stood on the disputed reef of Sandy Cay in the Spratly Islands....
Over the past year there has been something of a revival of anarcho-syndicalist theory and practice in so-called Canada. This is reflected in organizing and publishing projects coming out of Montreal (Liberté Ouvrière and the Anarchist Union Journal) that have already made significant contributions to innovative anarcho-syndicalist thinking on issues such as land back movements,...
HM Coastguard Crews are continuing to search for a man who went overboard from a yacht. The vessel was believed to have been travelling to Swansea from Brighton, via Falmouth in Cornwall, on Saturday. The Irish Coast Guard received a call at about 22:55 BST with a rescue helicopter from the UK’s HM Coastguard sent...
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Jonah Fisher BBC environment correspondent Getty Images The ocean absorbs about a quarter of the CO2 that is emitted into the atmosphere. A ground-breaking project to suck carbon out of the sea has started operating on England’s south coast. The small pilot scheme, known as SeaCURE, is funded by the UK government as part of...
The finish date for the second phase of urgent works to Exmouth’s sea wall has been delayed. The project is being delivered to protect Exmouth’s seafront from future storm damage and coastal erosion. East Devon District Council (EDDC) said the delay was due to “several unforeseen issues”, including safety checks, difficult ground conditions and bad...
For 20 years, Rj LaMendola found peace while paddling in the water on his surfboard. But last month off the coast of Southern California, the ocean turned hostile after a sea lion lunged at him, bit him and dragged him off his board. “It looked possessed,” Mr LaMendola wrote in a Facebook post, saying the...
EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The Solong cargo ship after it hit an oil tanker in the North Sea The owners of a container ship have filed a legal claim against the owners of a tanker that it struck in a crash in the North Sea. The Stena Immaculate, a US-registered tanker carrying aviation fuel, was anchored 16 miles...
An oil tanker and cargo ship that crashed in the North Sea did not have “dedicated lookouts” in what were “patchy conditions”, maritime investigators have found. The Stena Immaculate, a US-registered tanker, was anchored 16 miles off the East Yorkshire coast when it was hit by the Portuguese-flagged Solong on 10 March. The Marine Accident...
An image of a sunset over the sea has won the top prize in the 2024 South West Coast Path Photographer of the Year competition. More than 1,700 images taken at points along the path which stretches 630 miles (1,014km) around Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and Somerset were submitted, the South West Coast Path Association said....
More than 80 lives were saved in 2024 by lifeboat crews and lifeguards in the South West. Data from the RNLI shows volunteer lifeboats were launched 1,475 times while lifeguards responded to 6,892 incidents, helping 9,178 people over the course of the year. A combined 82 lives were saved in the region by the two...