Gower’s spectacular coastline, Michelin restaurants and pricey properties all explain why it’s the ‘Monaco of Wales’, says FRED REDWOOD By Fred Redwood For The Daily Mail Published: 17:26 EDT, 29 July 2021 | Updated: 17:26 EDT, 29 July 2021 Which Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty comes top when judged by house price premiums? It could … Read more
Marine officers battle to save a distressed whale tangled in buoys and netting after it was spotted off a popular Sydney beach Whale spotted swimming erratically in waters off Coogee beach on Sunday Onlookers saw the mammal drag along two bouys after it became tangled in net Sea crews were immediately dispatched to try and … Read more
If your doctor broke the grim news that you had only one year of good health left, what would you do? Take the holiday of a lifetime, write your memoirs, plan a family celebration – or maybe all of those? When pub landlord Simon Aylett, 59, faced that question he had only one answer – … Read more
More elaborate sets for Thor: Love and Thunder are popping up around Sydney. On Sunday, the hard-working crew for the Hollywood blockbuster were spotted creating an impressive set along the city’s picturesque coastline. Aerial photographs show trucks, machinery and shipping containers taking up a large chunk of land next to a golf course in Little … Read more
After adventurer, author and former soldier Jordan Wylie rowed solo, unsupported and unarmed across the most dangerous body of water on the planet – the pirate-infested Bab-el-Mandeb Strait (aka the Gate of Tears) – he described the 13-hour 42-minute voyage, from Djibouti to Yemen and back, as ‘the toughest thing I’ve ever done’. And at … Read more
The RNLI has come under fire following the deaths of three people at Britain’s beaches over the Bank Holiday weekend after it suspended coastal patrols. The charity suspended coastline patrols amid the coronavirus crisis in March, but this has angered surfers and local lifeguard groups after three deaths in two days. More casualties are now … Read more
Bank Holiday tragedy as teenage girl and man drown on same stretch of Cornish coastline as UK comes out of coronavirus lockdown Teenage girl died after an inflatable boat upturned in Porthilly Rock, Wadebridge Man was pulled from the water and pronounced dead at Treyarnon Bay, Padstow Devon and Cornwall Police described a ‘very tough day’ … Read more
Erecting Dutch-style dykes along a third of Europe’s coastline could prevent 83 per cent of projected flood damage from rising sea levels by the end of the century, study shows Europe is expected to face as much as 3.3 feet of sea level rise by the year 2100 Around 200 million people in Europe currently live within … Read more
Northumberland is scarcely a ‘secret’, but I had long presumed that it was so far away from where I lived, I would never visit. Then, a chance (and generous) gift from my sons of four nights in a boutique hotel to mark a big wedding anniversary took me there. The North-East, with its dramatic coastline, … Read more