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It feels like Putin is going back to Plan B, or C, which is scaling back his ambitions for Ukraine, from taking the whole of the country.

FOR half a century he has ploughed the rolling main, one of the last members of a once mighty fleet, feeding the nation with the fish to go with the chips.

Spirits lift when Kirkella docks in Hull.

History is filled with examples of powerful people and nations settling their differences through warfare. But sometimes, instead of guns and tanks,

hire a couple of bikes and go for a spin. “That’s great. Can you bring me back one of their King Prawn Rings and some Sticky Chicken Skewers?” Not really the response I was soliciting when I mentioned to a neighbour that I was going to Iceland on a motorbike, but even when I’d cleared up the confusion and explained that I was referring to the country, not the local supermarket, his reaction was still unremarkable to say the least. “Why the hell do you want to go there?” Iceland’s...

For as long as humans have been fishing to feed themselves, they have also been fighting over access to the best catch. While we don’t have any records of

Boris Johnson deployed vessels HMS Severn and HMS Tamar to monitor protest Ships are armed with menacing cannons and machine guns and are patrolling One re-enactment enthusiast felt the urge to intervene with his own weaponry Lone man shot a blank-firing musket into the water from Elizabeth Castle today  Footage shows him loading up his weapon before firing it into the harbour

Au revoir! Two Royal Navy ships send French fishermen scurrying back home from Jersey after one of them RAMS a British boat in fishing row - as gunboats prepare to return to port in the UK but remain on standby Fishermen said they were ready to restage the Battle of Trafalgar as they descended on harbour this morning David Sellam, head of the Normandy sea authority, said: Were ready for war. We can bring Jersey to its knees  But by 1.30pm navigation charts showed the armada had given in and wa...

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I T IS NOT exactly the Royal Navy task force steaming towards the Falklands, but the news that the prime minister has sent ships to protect an island threatened by an angry neighbour has historical resonance. On May 6th two navy vessels headed for the Channel Island of Jersey from the north, while a flotilla of French fishing boats, later followed by two of their own country’s patrol ships, sailed towards it from the south. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. T...