April 8, 2025
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April 1, 2025
Wild Spirits – passion for foraging transformed into an inspiring business
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February 10, 2025
Meet Steve Davies – owner of Dinosaurland, Lyme Regis
Paleontologist Steve Davies owns Dinosaurland, a fossil museum in Lyme Regis which houses 26,000 specimens – and is growing all the time Steve Davies’ affinity for the Jurassic Coast dates back to his school days,…
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February 4, 2025
Coast Character: Cornwall glassmaker Dreya Bennett
From Gladiators to glassmaking, a polymath career woman in Cornwall is smashing the glass ceiling in every sense… Dreya Bennett is a former Gladiator Crunchie Flying Circus wing walker, professional kite surfer, now turned successful…
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October 4, 2024
Coast community: Cornish winemaker Derek Crookes
The world of wine is opening up to people in Cornwall, thanks to the efforts of enthusiast, Cornish winemaker Derek Crookes. Derek Crookes is the co-owner and wine buyer at Kernowine in Falmouth. Del, as…
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September 19, 2024
Coast community: the UK’s most remote islands
Helicopter commutes, treacherous weather and puffin colleagues…all part of the nine to five for the people working on the UK’s most remote islands, discovers JENNY OLDAKER. Clare Henderson is an archaeologist for the National Trust…
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August 15, 2024
Coast character: Jamie Jones
No two days are the same for Jamie Jones, who has been working at Great Yarmouth’s Pleasure Beach since he was a teenager. WORDS: LIZ BLAKEBOROUGH Being part of the fourth generation of a family business…
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July 25, 2024
Coast character: Ross Geach
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March 21, 2024
Coast character: Jamie (James) Lawrence
Making traditional prawn withy pots is not for the faint-fingered, as KAREN YOUNG discovers when she visits retired fisherman Jamie (James) Lawrence in West Sussex. Willow or ‘withy’ pots are traditional traps that fishermen would…
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March 14, 2024
Meet Blue Badge guide Nigel Philpott
A Blue Badge guide and volunteer on one of the south coast’s most familiar historic ships has plenty of tales to tell about its past. Nigel Philpott is a registered Blue Badge guide for south…
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February 29, 2024
Coast character: Melissa Thom on Hope Cove
MELISSA THOM, founder and CEO of Bristol Academy of Voice Acting, embraces a favourite spot both personally and professionally – Hope Cove. My favourite stretch of coastline in the UK is south Devon, where I…
