35 m. ago Hightailing along high streets and raiding ponds: otters’ revival in Britain

Still rare only 20 years ago, the charismatic animals are in almost every UK river and a conservation success storyOn a quiet Friday evening, an otter and a fox trot through Lincoln city centre. The pair scurry past charity shops and through deserted streets, the encounter lit by the security lamps of shuttered takeaways. Each animal inspects the nooks and crannies of the high street before disappearing into the night, ending the unlikely scene captured by CCTV last month.Unlike the fox, the otter has been a rare visitor in towns and cities across the UK. But after decades of intense conservation work, that is changing. In the past year alone, the aquatic mammal has been spotted on a river-boat dock in London’s Canary Wharf, dragging an enormous fish along a riverbank in Stratford-upon-Avon, and plundering garden ponds near York. One otter was even filmed causing chaos in a Shetland family’s kitchen in March. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Offshore wind farms 'destroying Britain's fishing grounds' as trawler captains see crab and lobster catches plummet

Offshore windfarms are causing a huge downturn in seafood catches at one of the UK's most iconic locations for crab fishing, a local firm claims. Critics say the crisis is being repeated elsewhere.

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5 d. ago MPs probe Crown Estate after it rakes in £1.1billion profit from offshore wind farms

The estate, which owns the seabed around England, Wales and Northern Ireland on behalf of the monarch, recorded profits of £1.1billion in each of the past two financial years

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1 week ago Passenger falls from luxury yacht in the Channel off Brighton as rescue teams mount sea and air search

The man is believed to have fallen from a catamaran near the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm off Brighton.

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1 week ago English Channel emergency as passenger plunges from luxury yacht off Brighton

A man is believed to have fallen from a catamaran near the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm.

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1 week ago ‘We need to speak collectively’: can parliament solve the problem of ‘deprivation bingo’ in the UK’s seaside towns?

Labour knows it needs to win over the ‘sea wall’ cohort of coastal voters in the next election. But as anger over inequality grows, time is running outIt is a lovely sunny autumn day in Ramsgate on Britain’s Kent coast, and quintessential seaside chippy Peter’s Fish Factory is doing a roaring lunchtime trade. Across the road, at the entrance to the town’s pier, local MP and chair of the newly reformed coastal parliamentary Labour party (PLP), Polly Billington, is having her photo taken.In between shots she shows us the community art project that adorns the fence along the entrance to the pier. It is made up of pictures, drawn primarily by local children and young people, of the 65 little ships that set sail earlier this year from Ramsgate to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Cod and chips could soon be off the menu! Scientists say Britain should replace the popular white flaky fish with saithe...if diners are able to look past the colour

Instead of serving cod and haddock, British fish and chip shops should offer an underappreciated member of the pollock family that has grey-ish coloured flesh, experts say.

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3 w. ago Montrose bets on twin track future amid North Sea uncertainty

The port is balancing traditional oil and gas support work with growing offshore wind operations

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3 w. ago Why SNP's 'all in' gamble on offshore wind energy is coming back to haunt them

It was always necessary to pursue renewables vigorously – but not at the expense of other options like nuclear

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3 w. ago Brothers who claimed they were fishing when they were attempting to smuggle £26.5million of cocaine into Britain are jailed

Craig Nuttall, 51, and his brother Raymond, 47, had arrived at Watchet Marina in July 2025 insisting they were planning a few quiet days on the water in their Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat, the Guzzla.

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4 w. ago This famously tasty southeast London chippy is one of the top 10 fish and chip takeaways in Britain for 2026

This famously tasty southeast London chippy is one of the top 10 fish and chip takeaways in Britain for 2026  Time Out

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