04 Aug 2026
Photo by Oleksandr Sushko Plans for Sussex’s first commercial seaweed farm have been submitted to Chichester District Council and the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), with the entrepreneur behind the scheme hoping it will be the first of many along the county’s coast. From Countryfile to Bracklesham Bay Andrew Payne-Cook, 48, plans to site the […]
04 Aug 2026
Photo by Clement Souchet The French government has awarded almost €260 million to five ports to upgrade the infrastructure needed to manufacture, assemble and deploy floating offshore wind turbines, in a move that could “strengthen our industrial and energy sovereignty,” according to France’s transport minister. The funding will support projects at Cherbourg, Brest, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire, […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock Deprivation in coastal communities has reached a point where it can no longer be dismissed as a hidden or unknown problem, MPs argued in a Westminster Hall debate, as members from across the parties pressed the government to recognise the specific pressures facing seaside and island communities in how it measures […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock Defra has rejected the central recommendations of a cross-party committee report on rebuilding trust with the fishing industry, including calls for a Sea Use Framework and new regional forums giving fishers a formal role in policy. The rejection came in the government’s formal response to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock The Crown Estate has launched a competitive tender to find a new developer for the Morgan offshore wind site in the Irish Sea, months after the previous developers abandoned the project. The up to 1.5GW site, which could power around 1.5 million homes, was returned to the market on 24 July […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock At least half a million more people in the UK will be exposed to coastal flooding risk by 2100, a 25 per cent increase on today, according to the first study to quantify the scale of the UK population at risk under long-term sea-level rise. The research, led by the Met Office […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock The company that owns the vessel involved in the River Tyne nurdle spill has admitted its response has fallen short of what the community expected, as the North East mayor presses the firms responsible to fund what she has called the worst nurdle pollution incident in Europe. Up to 25 tonnes […]
28 Jul 2026
Photo Credit: AdobeStock The government has published a revised National Policy Statement for Ports that strengthens the presumption in favour of approving major port developments, in a move welcomed by the industry as providing greater certainty for investment. The amended statement was laid before Parliament on 6 July by Keir Mather, the Aviation, Maritime […]
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