A "poignant" new exhibition is to remember victims of the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster 20 years ago. More than 30 Chinese nationals were harvesting the shellfish from the sands of the bay in ...

The founder of More Music in Morecambe has been talking about their event being held at the weekend to mark the 20th anniversary of the cockling disaster ... far out in the bay, and who knows ...

Cockle pickers have returned to work in the bay where 19 Chinese workers were drowned. About 100 pickers, some on foot and others on tractors and quad bikes, gathered along the Morecambe Bay ...

The bodies of 19 cockle pickers who drowned after they ... were among a group of Chinese harvesting cockles in Morecambe Bay, Lancashire. A frantic rescue mission involving two RAF helicopters ...

Twenty-three Chinese cockle pickers drowned in February 2004 when caught by the incoming tide in the dark, while working in the waters of Morecambe Bay. Mr Waterfield added the agency would ...

He helped in a number of high-profile incidents including the search for Padiham murder victim Katie Kenyon in 2022, the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy of 2004, and was an incident controller ...