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 ...
RNLI operations manager Michael Guy was on duty in the Morecambe lifeboat station on the evening of February 5 2004. It was a fateful night he and his colleagues on the lifeboat crew will never ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...