09 Apr 2018
Although coastal communities have their fair share of challenges, not least social deprivation, their unique asset – the sea – offers many possibilities. I once heard Steve Fothergill, of Sheffield Hallam University who had studied the coalfields and coastal communities summarise it like this, ‘nobody wants to visit or retire to the coalfields’. The coast […]
27 Nov 2017
Amazing experiences off Fowey West country kayaker and adventurer Rupert Kirkwood got lucky just two miles off Fowey in Cornwall during a trip with companions Jeremy and Jane. Having glimpsed a breaching tuna here a couple of days previously, I was absolutely set on making the effort to get one on camera,” Rupert said. They […]
14 Nov 2016
Guardian ‘Carnegie Wave Energy in Cornwall announced that it had secured £9.6m of EU funding that would enable it to connect England’s first commercial-scale wave power project to the grid. A 15MW array at Cornwall’s wave hub centre should now be commissioned in 2018, before commercial deployment in 2021. The local MP and environment minister George Eustice, […]
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